Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Come on, man.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

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

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Let there be snark.

After roe, women are no longer free.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

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

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  3. 3.

    Warren Terra

    Funny-looking birds in that picture, I’d say. And big: no wonder the birdseed level drops in real time.

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    SIA

    The dogs look so happy.

    Bird feeding and watching us one of the great pleasures of my life.

    Thanks for a post that doesn’t make me want to sit on the floor and sob!

  7. 7.

    Comrade Luke

    I put up a feeder after reading about your experience and I’m getting NOTHING. NO. THING. Any suggestions?

  8. 8.

    LuciaMia

    That is such a great pic. When you think of how Lily was when she first came to you. Now, that is one happy relaxed dog.

  10. 10.

    Ash Can

    Listen, once those birds get used to the feeders, they can be real hogs. What’s more, the little stinkers will sit on the feeder and plow through the pile of seeds to find their favorite ones, shoveling seeds onto the ground by the bucketful for other birds — not to mention lard-butt squirrels — to vacuum up. But it’s a hoot, and the cost of the birdseed is worth it.

  11. 11.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    You haven’t lived until you’ve been strafed by Baltimore Orioles (birds not the team). It’s one of the advantages of where we are in East Bumblefuck.

    Go Habs! Crosby Sucks!

    Stoopid Capitals Choking Dogs.

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    Ken

    That’s the thing with bird feeders, John; build them and they will come. We are in 3rd season with ours (“cage” with suet blocks) and some days the birds are queing up on the shephard’s crook, trees and phone line to get their chance. We put up a hummingbird feeder in mid-season last year, and will patiently wait for the little rascals to “discover it’s there.

    Yes, SIA, it is one of life’s pleasures.

    Comrade Luke, the only thing I can say is ‘patience’. Not much help, but I guess that’s the way it is with some things.

  16. 16.

    fucen tarmal

    wow what a first period. frenetic action the pens got the better of, except when they let montreal have some quick chances…

    go pens!

  20. 20.

    Joshua Norton

    Dude, you’ll be bird seed poor soon enough. Once birds zero in on a feeding place they’ll be gobbeling up that stuff 24/7. You back yard will resemble St. Marks Square. Especially when the big birds decide to take over.

  22. 22.

    Jon H

    John,

    Have you considered getting one of those little feeders that sticks to your window with suction cups?

    Tunch would go mad.

  23. 23.

    Skepticat

    Are you really not overrun with squirrels? Although my feeders are mobbed with birds, it’s only when the rodents get at it that the level drops so fast. Well, that and when the crazy nuthatch sits there and flings seeds all other the place.

  25. 25.

    rknight44

    @Warren Terra: Those are “bird” dogs. Get it. But seriously, bird Pr0n. John, good work on the feeders. Who is the popular/prolific visitor?

  26. 26.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Bleg: Teh other day, Anne Laurie (I think it was) posted the name of a wildlife group that is starting up clean up operations on the Gulf Coast. The donations page was all hinky. Any one got that name?

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    Comrade Kevin

    That’s about as early as I have ever turned off a Sharks game. Bah.

  29. 29.

    LT

    If you haven’t already someone is bound to give you shit for fucking with the natural feeding habits of wild birds. Fuck em. We’ve already fucked with the feeding, sleeping, migrating, fucking, living in general habits of EVERYTHING on this planet. Bird feeders are probably net positives at this point.

    Go Habs! Crosby is mindblowingly good. Go Habs!

  31. 31.

    Quicksand

    @Comrade Kevin:

    That’s about as early as I have ever turned off a Sharks game. Bah.

    I was going to leave work early (west coast) to catch most of the game, but I checked the score before heading out.

    Now I think I might as well stay and get some work done.

  32. 32.

    RSR

    audio gift card ads? anyone else getting them??

    Been happening for a few days to me on various home and work PCs, so I don’t think it’s related to spam/adware on one unit.

    “CONGRATULATIONS!” ripping out of my speakers at random reloads is rather unpleasant.

  33. 33.

    LT

    It’s fun to watch which birds don’t come to the feeder. Sparrows of every kind, blue jays (of course), but the rufus sided towhees only feed from the ground below. And the tiny finches never come, but live out in the blackberries.

  35. 35.

    paradox

    I have this wide clay cistern on a pedestal that holds two gallons of water near the bird seed, and I’m surprised how much I like it.

    Birds love the water, they drink and splash all day long. When they don’t happen to be around the aesthetic of still water and reflection is remarkable for such a small surface area.

    I have to replace the water every other day, no big. Nice.

  37. 37.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    JC: The squirrels could be an issue down the line. I eagerly await your missives on how you deal with them since I found your dandelion jihad very entertaining. If you think the dandelions were stubborn, squirrels are major leaguers and they are AA…or the Pirates. :)

    In the meantime, glad you’re enjoying the joys of bird watching at home. It’s one of the unforseen bonuses we discovered when we moved here.

    Oh, and Crosby still sucks and Go Habs! And the Caps are still Choking Dogs. Sigh.

    Plus, more overwhelming cute from an earlier foster family of ours:

    http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/6051/peekabool.jpg

  38. 38.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    @Ruckus:

    I rarely venture into our Wal-Marts (we have two now in a town of 40K). But when I do? That web site plays out in front of me real time. It’s so true it’s scary.

  45. 45.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    Yesssssss!

    I am so pathetic. I hafta root for a team that beat mine just so the evil Pengoooins can join the Choking Dogs on the golf course for the rest of the month and well into June.

  47. 47.

    oklahomo

    @Ken: Just wait, we have days when we have to do a morning and evening fill on 4 hummer feeders hanging in the front yard.

  49. 49.

    Cat Lady

    Bruins may go all. the. way. That’s some motherfucking hope and change I can believe in. Please FSM, make me a believer in the world that you intended all of your creatures to live in forever and ever amen.

  50. 50.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    Since this is an OT, may I just say to anyone who can’t readily get sushi:

    My heart bleeds for you.

    [Nomnomnom]

    I had coffee this morning, filled the feeders, went in for another cup an hour later, and one of the feeders had already dropped an inch or more.

    Check Tunch’s whiskers for birdseed.

  52. 52.

    Dog is My Co-Pilot

    And to think there was a time when you actually wondered if you’d ever have any birds. Don’t say we didn’t warn you! Better be stocked up on seed or there will be hell to pay.

  56. 56.

    madmommy

    @Corner Stone:

    Penguins of Madagascar is comedy genius. The lemur just wrecks me every time.

    No hockey here, just NBA playoffs. And not even Sir Charles on TNT, but the ESPN guys.

  61. 61.

    Daniel

    Wait until the starlings discover your feeder(s); you too will be able to watch the seed supply vanish in a day. And that’s not counting the raccoons…

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