Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Books are my comfort food!

Republicans would impeach Biden if he bit into a whole Kit Kat rather than breaking the sections apart.

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

I’m just a talker, trying to find a channel!

Found liable for massive fraud, is required to post a massive bond, gets a break, then files a *fraudulent* bond!

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

The revolution will be supervised.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

We still have time to mess this up!

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

Maybe you would prefer that we take Joelle’s side in ALL CAPS?

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

“woke” is the new caravan.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

In my day, never was longer.

The lights are all blinking red.

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Closure

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That certainly didn’t take long:

The FBI has arrested a 30-year-old Bridgeport, Conn., man in connection with the failed attempt to set off a car bomb in New York’s Times Square, federal authorities told ABCNews.com late Monday night.

The man was identified as Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized American citizen, who had recently returned from a five-month trip to Pakistan and the city of Peshawar, a known jumping off point for al Qaeda and Taliban recruits.

Shahzad was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City where FBI agents said he was attempting to leave the country to go to Dubai.

Now that we’ve captured him, since we have decided we are no longer a democracy that believes in the rule of law, we should ship Shahzad to India, where they aren’t afraid to try terrorists in court.

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Arizona uber alles

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More evidence that the Arizona immigration law is simply a principled conservative policy:

Don Black is a Florida-based white supremacist who is deemed so dangerous he’s banned from the UK for inciting hatred. Arizona State Senate Majority leader Chuck Gray—a proponent of the recent immigration bill—follows him on Twitter.

Also too Bobo has a strange meandering column, which by my lights, is a dipping of the toes into racial supremacist waters.

It’s coming, folks. It won’t be long now until thoughtful, intellectually honest conservatives insist that we have a free-wheeling debate about some form of racial supremacism. Hear me now, believe me later.

Only left-wing ideologues will reject the idea that ill-designed tests prove that certain groups possess less of the ill-defined quantity of intelligence.

Update. I’m staying away from Eugene Volokh’s over-the-top rant along these lines because I agree that that Harvard Law Student shouldn’t be publicly humiliated over private email. But, yes, that was on my mind too when I wrote this.

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Skeptical (sung to the tune of Ironic)

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This, from an ABC News piece on the Times Square bombing attempt, is just excellent writing:

Though a Taliban leader thought killed in a U.S. drone strike has now resurfaced in a video threatening attacks on U.S. cities, and the Taliban has claimed credit for the failed New York attack, U.S. authorities are skeptical.

Is the Taliban leader dead? Who knows!

Who did we kill in that drone attack then? Who cares, they hate us for our freedom!

Has he resurfaced in a video? Not sure!

Did they claim credit for the attack? Maybe!

Are they responsible for the the attack? Possibly!

“They’re” skeptical!

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If the TSA Ran New York

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James Fallows imagines a Times Square Security Administration (TsSA) and gets it about right:

– All vans or SUVs headed into Midtown Manhattan would have to stop and have their contents inspected. If any vehicle seemed for any reason to have escaped inspection, Midtown in its entirety would be evacuated;

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– The restrictions would never be lifted and the TsSA would have permanent life, because the political incentives here work only one way. A politician who supports more open-ended, more thorough, more intrusive, more expensive inspections can never be proven “wrong.” The absence of attacks shows that his measures have “worked”; and a new attack shows that inspections must go further still. A politician who wants to limit the inspections can never be proven “right.” An absence of attacks means that nothing has gone wrong — yet. Any future attack would always and forever be that politician’s “fault.” Given that asymmetry of risks, what public figure will ever be able to talk about paring back the TSA?

The whole thing is worth a read.

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Chuck Open Thread

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New Chuck tonight.

Also, BombIranforChrist passes along this pic of his dearly departed Lola, who had to be put down today:

That’s just something I am completely unprepared to deal with. I bet I spend several hours a day petting Tunch and Lily. I can’t imagine having one of them gone.

*** Update ***

Is it just me, or does Fred Willard make everything he is in better? He’s like the bacon of comedy shows/movies.

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