Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

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

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

No one could have predicted…

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

An almost top 10,000 blog!

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

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

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

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

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

I was promised a recession.

Republicans in disarray!

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

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  1. 1.

    jwb

    Banner’s gone all funky. Kind of like it, though.

    ETA: and then I post and it’s back to normal.

  3. 3.

    PeakVT

    Keep the bitching to a minimum or I will say nasty things.

    You should know by now that the BJ crowd will take this as a challenge.

  5. 5.

    NickM

    Whenever I see a picture of Rand Paul, I always think that he’s gone wet-look crazy.

  6. 6.

    Nethead Jay

    The randomized click-enabled subtitle in the header has moved from below to above Balloon-Juice. Is that deliberate or a fluke? Firefox 3.6.3 on XP at work, btw.

  7. 7.

    Larkspur

    Ad guru, pshaw. It’s Tunch and he’s got you tied up, and everything is gonna be funky till Tunch gets bored.

  9. 9.

    jwb

    @Nethead Jay: It’s moving all over for me. Sometimes in the correct place, sometimes above the title. Last time I loaded the page, it initially placed it next to the article title.

  11. 11.

    gnomedad

    I thought this essay was pretty interesting:
    The Tea Party Jacobins

    For half a century now Americans have been rebelling in the name of individual freedom. Some wanted a more tolerant society with greater private autonomy, and now we have it, which is a good thing—though it also brought us more out-of-wedlock births, a soft pornographic popular culture, and a drug trade that serves casual users while destroying poor American neighborhoods and destabilizing foreign nations. Others wanted to be free from taxes and regulations so they could get rich fast, and they have—and it’s left the more vulnerable among us in financial ruin, holding precarious jobs, and scrambling to find health care for their children. We wanted our two revolutions. Well, we have had them.

    Now an angry group of Americans wants to be freer still—free from government agencies that protect their health, wealth, and well-being; free from problems and policies too difficult to understand; free from parties and coalitions; free from experts who think they know better than they do; free from politicians who don’t talk or look like they do (and Barack Obama certainly doesn’t). They want to say what they have to say without fear of contradiction, and then hear someone on television tell them they’re right. They don’t want the rule of the people, though that’s what they say. They want to be people without rules—and, who knows, they may succeed.

  12. 12.

    lamh32

    I glad to see the back of Arlen, but I’m gonna ask the same thing I asked last night.

    The BIG QUESTION is:
    How will Arlen vote for the remainder of his term? Dude seems like the type of hold a grudge, but who will he hold a grudge against?

  13. 13.

    Violet

    Question: I got a pop up saying Balloon Juice was surveying its readers, or something like that. Did you order that and would it be useful for you if we filled it out? Or is it something else unrelated to you?

  17. 17.

    Rosalita

    or I will say nasty things

    and this is a new development? we like the curmudgeon in you

  18. 18.

    Mumphrey

    I hate these new ads. These new ads are the worst ads ever. They suck. They scare my dog, and my daughter, and they scare me, too! I demand that you get rid of these new ads forthwith. And how can you live with yourself, selling yourself this way? You should be ashamed. You’re nothing but a sellout, and you’re an O-bot, too.

    By the way, what are the new ads?

  19. 19.

    jeffreyw

    This site has given me hives. I demand redress! Well, I would take red dress if it were to be presented to me while being worn by the new Ms USA.
    USA! Fuckyeah!

  20. 20.

    c u n d gulag

    Hey, what happened to blond newswoman pitching i-pad discounts in her ever changing blouses (the color changed, and she went from sleeveless to sleeves) on different sites?
    She was very, very cute!

  22. 22.

    Rosalita

    Hey John, how about adding some BJ mugs to the store with, say, the top five rolling tag lines?

    I’d love a BJ mug that offers the banner plus the tag line about tasty lettuce, etc. is not elitist…

    the one about the refuge for the snarling mass of jackals is quite the winner too

  25. 25.

    PurpleGirl

    @Mumphrey: LOL

    I’m at home, using WinXP (home version) with FireFox 3.6 and the tag line is over Balloon Juice. It looks nice but if you plan to keep it there, John, it needs a few more points of space between the tag and Balloon Juice.

  27. 27.

    Third Eye Open

    So you dropped Wal-Mart, a heartland company, for some elitist L.L. Bean? From now on, you will be known as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III.

  29. 29.

    Nethead Jay

    @Mike Kay: @Mike Kay: Hahaha, your link-fu is as weak as your troll-fu. You do know that’s from Countdown Monday so I and any other BJ’ers who watch Olbermann saw that a day and a half ago. Alter’s book does sound quite interesting, but it’s not quite unknown stuff, though maybe to you. But don’t let that distract you from the usual shtick…

  30. 30.

    The Moar You Know

    How will Arlen vote for the remainder of his term? Dude seems like the type of hold a grudge, but who will he hold a grudge against?

    @lamh32: This could not come as a shock to him; his conduct during the Thomas confirmation hearings alone pretty well assured that he’d never have a safe home in the Democratic party.

    But yeah, he is one mean son-of-a-bitch, he has no love for Dems and the GOP fucked him over but good, so I wouldn’t put it past him to jam up the works regardless of what party is trying to get something done.

  31. 31.

    Calming Influence

    I had really thought the cats had reached their limit of creative ideas for driving us out of bed to feed them, but this morning Voodoo found a new one: the spring doorstop.

    [sproing!…………………sproing!sprooiing!]
    .
    .
    .
    [SPROING!SPROING!SPROING!SPROING!SPROiiiiiiiiiiiiNG!]
    .
    .
    .
    “Meee-OOOOOOOOOOW!

  34. 34.

    Tattoosydney

    or I will say nasty things

    Please say nasty things.

    ETA: I have major airlines and pension funds trying to sell shit to me on this damn website. Please stop then doing so immediately.

    EATA: And Robert Pattinson. He shits me too.

  35. 35.

    strawmanmunny

    @Mike Kay:

    I’m at work and can’t watch, what did Alter say? I got his book last night and going to start reading soon.

  37. 37.

    Poopyman

    @burnspbesq:

    Oh, just say the nasty things and get it over with. You know you want to.

    Yeah, it’s better to let it out rather than holding it in until the explosion.

    Although for us the explosions are much more entertaining.

  39. 39.

    HRA

    “or I will say nasty things”

    Oh good! That means I can get off of the pc and get some needed house and yard work accomplished on a rare day off.

  40. 40.

    Mike Kay

    @strawmanmunny:

    1. everyone, from Biden to the council of economic advisers, begged him to completely punt on HCR.

    2. confronting the pentagon that parallels the Truman-MacArthur showdown.

    in short, the roadside is littered with people who underestimated the skinny black guy with the funny name.

  41. 41.

    Ash Can

    @PaulW: I saw a figure somewhere this AM that 40% of Grayson’s voters intend to vote for Paul in the general, and 43% do not. Then again, who knows what will happen when the chips are down?

  42. 42.

    Persia

    I liked the fancy J. Peterman ad from yesterday. Free shipping on orders over $100! Possibly one item in the store for sale at less than $100.

  43. 43.

    strawmanmunny

    @Mike Kay:

    Thanks.

    I’m hoping the book will be good. I have read Richard Wolff’s from the election and thought it was pretty good. Hopefully Alter’s will be.

  44. 44.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    Love the World Soccer Shop ads.

    Your ads are linked to cookies because I’m getting a lot of World Soccer Shop, eBay, Marvel and Amazon ads and they are all sites I visited in the last 24 hours.

  52. 52.

    frankdawg

    @Citizen_X:

    BTW – Curvy is my new guilty pleasure, I can’t wait for updates on Saturday. Yes it is juvenile & silly but I am hooked.

  54. 54.

    SIA

    @lamh32:

    Dude seems like the type of hold a grudge, but who will he hold a grudge against?

    Obama, unless he gets some kind of position in the administration.

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