Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

T R E 4 5 O N

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

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

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Books are my comfort food!

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

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

Bark louder, little dog.

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

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Any Resurrection Experts Out There?

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The apparent bugs in the lexicon got much worse today. The page didn’t seem to load fully when I tried to edit it, and then when I returned to see the original page it appears to be gone entirely. The problem is thus twofold: (1) Does anyone know whether the HTML is recorded anywhere? I have heard about interweb archives but I have no idea how to access it or whether it applies to this site. (2) How do we figure out what happened and how to fix the code? I guess that we will probably need to hold a fundraiser and pay a programmer.

Thanks.

***Update***

Credit goes to demomondian for sending me a copy of the Google cache that let me extract the source code. I just plugged the code into the WP edit box and whammo! the page is back. But now I cannot edit it. Here is the error message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4864 bytes) in /home/jcole010/domains/golive.balloon-juice.com/public_html/wp-includes/kses.php(1005) : runtime-created function on line 1

Either we’re halfway there, or I just broke something even worse.

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Late OT & Thursday Night Menu

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Our “new” dog Gloria’s status is changing from foster to permanent, and she is totally taking advantage. Eight-year-old Zevon is limping from a hard shoulder check, Syd Viscous is reverting to his old abused Worm Boy persona, and don’t even ask what the three cats think. Gloria automatically goes to the Time Out crate when I raise my voice now, but you can see the “Whatevs — totally worth it” thought balloon hanging over her head, the little menace. Time to re-enroll at the doggy training classes…

Here is Bad Horse Filly’s First Snow Thursday Night Menu:

This is not your mamma’s canned tomato soup and grilled cheese, and can I say, the flax cookies are addictive (they’re a friend’s recipe, so I can say that.)

Hearty Tomato Soup
Totally Awesome Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Flax Cookies

(Click the blue ‘First Snow’ link for the complete details.)

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This is not a smart ass question

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Is there anything that vouchers aren’t the answer for? I mean that on two different levels: (1) is there any question that conservatives don’t think vouchers are the answer for and (2) is it conceivable that, given any question, it really is possible to come up with a reasonable answer involving vouchers.

I’m not saying that Feldstein’s voucher health care solution is crazy. I’m just curious.

Update. Ezekiel Emanuel wrote a paper in support of health care vouchers a few years ago. (h/t Rob from Denver). My point is not to mock vouchers, more to encourage a provocative discussion with interesting points, an intellectual exercise if you will.

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Priorities

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The Republicans have them:

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) are voting against the House/Senate fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill — because it contains hate crimes provisions designed to protect gays and lesbians.

Boehner, speaking at his weekly press conference Thursday, said the inclusion of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in the defense bill was “an abuse of power” by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that sought to punish offenders for what they thought — and not what they did.

In other words, they hate gays more than they love the troops, and you know how much they say they love the troops.

You all really need to watch the HBO documentary Outrage.

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Big Reason

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Welch fluffs Breitbart:

Andrew Breitbart (a friend of mine) is nobody’s Pauline Kael, yet he produces bits of real-world journalism that eventually The New York Timeses of the world have to catch up to. This fact is apparently enough to make people’s brains pop.

The point Welch is trying to make is simple: the fact that people like Brietbart have no journalistic standards of their own doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with them critiquing and influencing actual journalists. And that’s a valid point.

But as is usual with glibertarians — even newly minted ones like Welch — there is a vast oversimplification. It is not problematic (it’s good, in fact) for the media to pick up on legitimate stories uncovered by even the the most unhinged, partisan bloggers. It is is problematic that the Times and Post feel they have to kow-tow to Beck/Breitbart in order to prove that they’re not teh librul.

It’s quite remarkable to contrast the Opus Dei style ritual self-flagellation the mainstream media went through about the ACORN story with the complete lack of comment they gave about the fact that Josh Marshall started covering the US Attorney scandal months before the Times or Post picked it up. In fact, it’s a bit worse than that — Mike Kinsley and Jay Carney openly mocked Marshall’s investigation (Carney later apologized).

The trouble with conservative critique of the media is that it’s too often hysterical and bullying. For every Dan Rather memo they’ve uncovered, they’ve looked at a thousand families’ countertops (figuratively speaking). The mainstream media’s cowardly response to the bullying is not a good thing, no matter what the Reaonoids think.

I’d like to think that if the Koch family paid me whatever they’re paying Matt Welch, that I’d still be saying this….

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