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Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

He really is that stupid.

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

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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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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Old People Suck, But Not As Much as the Professional Left

Old People Suck, But Not As Much as the Professional Left

by John Cole|  August 13, 20102:45 pm| 108 Comments

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Svensker asks:

Can we somehow combine the Hatin’ on Boomers thread with the Hatin’ on Disgruntled Progressives thread? Cuz that would really cause tempers to flare and I wanna watch.

You know who really suck? Old members of the professional left. Splitters.

Consider this an open thread.

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  1. 1.

    mr. whipple

    August 13, 2010 at 2:48 pm

    You know who really suck? Old members of the professional left.

    Those are the worst, no question. It’s always ‘Viet Nam’ this, and ‘Viet Nam’ that, and going on and on about the music and drugs. Zzzzzzzzzz.

  2. 2.

    Mark

    August 13, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    I do find them a little annoying – I mean, they’re always talking about how they sat in at some segregated barber shop in Antioch back in ’54. But anybody who voted either wasted their votes on the Green party or voted D in the last 11 presidential elections is a free thinker and a true American.

  3. 3.

    taylormattd

    August 13, 2010 at 2:51 pm

    Lol

  4. 4.

    Mark

    August 13, 2010 at 2:51 pm

    @mr. whipple – true that. Always bitching about Robert McNamara. Compare Bob Herbert’s scathing “obituary” of him to his ‘no comment’ when Reagan died.

  5. 5.

    p.a.

    August 13, 2010 at 2:53 pm

    Goddammit, GW Bush really was a unifying figure!

  6. 6.

    Svensker

    August 13, 2010 at 2:53 pm

    You’re welcome.

  7. 7.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    August 13, 2010 at 2:54 pm

    “But we don’t want the Irish!”

  8. 8.

    russell

    August 13, 2010 at 2:55 pm

    Me and Noam Chomsky are going to come over and kick your ass!!!

    Smartass whippersnapper.

  9. 9.

    steviez314

    August 13, 2010 at 2:56 pm

    Beats being a gay Muslim illegal immigrant who works for ACORN.

  10. 10.

    Jager

    August 13, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    You know who really pisses me off is my great, great, great, great, great grandfather whining about the pension he got shafted on after the Revoluntionary War and how fucking hard it was throwing off the yoke of the King of England, I don’t think that old whiney bastard could have put up with the god damned humidity in Viet Nam and then there is my grandfather bitching about all the mud in the trenches in WW1…all a bunch of pussys.

  11. 11.

    beltane

    August 13, 2010 at 2:58 pm

    Maybe not everyone in the professional left sucks, but I’ll go out on a limb and say that David Sirota really does suck badly.

  12. 12.

    trollhattan

    August 13, 2010 at 2:59 pm

    @steviez314:

    Beats being a gay Muslim illegal immigrant terror baby who works for ACORN.

    FXD

  13. 13.

    Michael

    August 13, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    Svensker’s a shit stirrer who obviously works for a drug company that markets BP meds.

  14. 14.

    Politically Lost

    August 13, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    I’m loving the GOP idiot Ghomert, “TERROR BABIES” thing.

    I wonder if I can sponsor my very own islamunifacist woman to come to the US and spawn a terror baby. Is there a website where I can sign up?

  15. 15.

    David Hunt

    August 13, 2010 at 3:01 pm

    You know who really suck? Old members of the professional left. Splitters.

    And I look at the top of the page and under the logo I see, “Screw the Judean People’s Front. Splitters!”

  16. 16.

    steviez314

    August 13, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    I mean, look at the latest PPP generic poll:

    Republicans again lead the generic Congressional ballot test, 45-42, a
    slight jump over a 43-43 tie last month and a 43-41 Democratic edge in June. These are
    the GOP’s best numbers since April, when they had a 47-42 advantage. The difference in
    the last month is small movements towards Democrats among independents, from a 38-
    31 GOP edge to only 37-33 now, but Democrats have become slightly less unified around
    their party’s candidates and Republicans more so around theirs.

    So indies are moving to the Dems, while the Dems frag themselves and the Republicans line up behind their crazy old uncles.

    Jeez, I’d never want to be in a foxhole with any Democrats.

  17. 17.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    August 13, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    Gravy man, gravy.

  18. 18.

    Sue

    August 13, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    The only way you are going to repair the damage you have done today is to offer a senior discount at the Balloon Juice Store. And it had better be a big one, ’cause you know we’re not satisfied with half-measures.

  19. 19.

    SpotWeld

    August 13, 2010 at 3:04 pm

    Has anyone photoshopped a “Muppet Terror Babies” image yet?

  20. 20.

    Lev

    August 13, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    So the professional left is angry because Obama isn’t the fire-spewing, conflict-starting, highly-ideological liberal warrior he promised he would be.

    Except that he didn’t promise that. He kept saying “postpartisan” in reference to himself. He complained about trivial and annoying cable news-style debates. During his campaign he rarely started fights, preferring to let his opponents attack him in over the top ways–remember Hillary and Obama’s Kintergarten paper?–and then counterpunch while making the other guy seem like a heartless aggressor.

    In other words, campaign Obama is pretty much President Obama. I don’t agree with everything he’s done, but the professional left is mostly angry because Obama isn’t like them.

  21. 21.

    steve

    August 13, 2010 at 3:06 pm

    “Listen, if you wanted to join the Disgruntled Progressives, you’d have to really hate Obama.”

    “I do!”

    “Yeah? How much?”

    “A lot!”

    [pause]

    “Right, you’re in.”

  22. 22.

    Comrade Dread

    August 13, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    Oh, sure, you jest now, but just wait until the rest of us are subjected to endless television and print introspective pieces on Boomer hippies and geriatrics as if they’re the first and most important generation to ever wake up and wonder why the f*** those damn kids are on their lawns, and it’ll be treated like the solemn pronouncements from one Mega-Philosopher combined from the DNA of Buddha, Solomon, Socrates, Aristotle, Locke, and Nietzsche.

    Screw those old hippie farts.

  23. 23.

    MikeJ

    August 13, 2010 at 3:08 pm

    @SpotWeld: Jon Stewart. Or was it Colbert? One of them last night. They used Scooter as the base (or in arabic, al qaeda).

  24. 24.

    ruemara

    August 13, 2010 at 3:08 pm

    Anyone know of downers for the most godawful fucking neurotic cat that has ever been in existence? I’m kinda tired of the non-stop screaming for food, 3 mins after he’s eaten and there’s still food inn the bowl. It’s insane and he’s already on medication for thyroid-but it hasn’t helped a bit on the screaming and whining. No, he’s not in pain nor is he interested in anything but eating and sleeping. Oh yeah, and pooping. This is driving us and the other cat crazy.

  25. 25.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 13, 2010 at 3:09 pm

    Smells like patchouli and Gold Bond powder. Mmmmm…

  26. 26.

    Jager

    August 13, 2010 at 3:09 pm

    @SpotWeld:

    Mattel is working on it, it will be part of their new “Monster High” collection…perfect for your 3rd grade girl

  27. 27.

    Woodrowfan

    August 13, 2010 at 3:10 pm

    SOUTHERN progressive baby boomers who hate Obama are the worst though!

  28. 28.

    You Don't Say

    August 13, 2010 at 3:10 pm

    @Sue: But do it soon. I’m on the way to Denny’s for the early bird special.

  29. 29.

    DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective

    August 13, 2010 at 3:11 pm

    In contemporary politics, the contest seems to be between people who don’t know much of anything, and don’t care, and people who know a lot, and think they know everything.

    Both groups are insane. The main difference for me is that the former group has no history, and doesn’t seem interested in how we got here. The latter group knows some history, but doesn’t seem to be able to learn anything from it.

    As a ward of the state, now that I have retired, I can sit back and watch both of these groups go to work every day and earn my living. Serves ya all right.

  30. 30.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    August 13, 2010 at 3:12 pm

    @steviez314:

    Polling in mid terms is notorious for inaccuracy and triple that before Labor Day, when the campaign begins in earnest. It will all likely come down to, How much more enthused are the wingnuts to go vote for goopers, and how the choice and motivation for independents and dems between their impatience on the economy and putting the party of Bush back in power. Personally, if I was a dem running for congress, I’d carry around a Mission Accomplished placard all the time, blare Katrina and the Waves music ever where I went. “Walking on Sunshine” Oy yeah.

    Oh, and every few days shoot somebody in the face, metaphorically, of course

  31. 31.

    MikeJ

    August 13, 2010 at 3:13 pm

    @ruemara: Have you tried marinating him in your trunk in a mixture of oil, crushed red peppers, chili pepper and salt?

  32. 32.

    FlipYrWhig

    August 13, 2010 at 3:14 pm

    @Lev:

    the professional left is mostly angry because Obama isn’t like them.

    The professional left is mostly angry because the professional left is professionally angry, or at least _performing_ as angry. It’s a fine role to play, and it never goes away. (I’ve been to graduate school in the humanities. I know the type.) It’s just louder than it used to be, because of the internetz. And it enters the broader political discussion more often because the other media got worried about their irrelevance and decided to try to harness all this energy out there they never felt themselves.

  33. 33.

    DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective

    August 13, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    @ruemara:

    Yes. The remedy is a 3 x 5 card at the grocery store that says “Nice cat free to good home.”

  34. 34.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 13, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    @MikeJ: I have been wondering what type of oil. I have olive, canola, and Mobil One.

  35. 35.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    August 13, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    @steviez314: Actually in a foxhole, I would only want to be with Democrats. It’s just convincing them that they need to get in the foxhole which is driving me crazy.

  36. 36.

    Trinity

    August 13, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    I have a bottle of Dogfish Head Pangaea at home chilling.

    I wish I was a cook. It deserves something better than the DiGiorno frozen pizza it is likely to get.

    Happy Friday peeps :)

  37. 37.

    FlipYrWhig

    August 13, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    @Woodrowfan:

    SOUTHERN progressive baby boomers who hate Obama are the worst though!

    Hey, I like Bill Moyers.

  38. 38.

    homerhk

    August 13, 2010 at 3:17 pm

    I would urge everyone to read this article in Vanity Fair – http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/08/can-washington-be-fixed.html

    anyone not understanding the frustration right now in the WH could do with reading this and reflecting.

    it is illuminating watching re-runs of the West Wing. The Stimulus Bill alone would have been enough domestic and foreign policy liberal achievments for 2 series of the West Wing! A whole episode devoted to mandatory minimums and that was done pretty much without a peep. A victory when a healthcare bill is passed which limited lawsuits to $5 million! The things that Obama has achieved have been liberal wet dreams for decades and yet that’s just not enough.

  39. 39.

    jl

    August 13, 2010 at 3:17 pm

    Self proclaimed Deadheads who worry about whether they should clap as snooty classical music concerts are the worst sort of people.

    What would Mickey Hart say about such a thing? Nothing good, I am sure.

    They are very dangerous because of their obvious deep existential confusion.

    After that, self professed hard as nails and zealous Steelers fans who get pedicures, and then advertise it in public.

    After that, home gardeners who hate on growing zucchini.

    After that, self advertized pet loving bloggers who refuse to post on a regular basis pictures of their pretty pet cats of obscure Turkish ancestry.

    We will fail as society unless these dangerous elements are ostracized, reviled, renounced, rejected, repudiated and refudiated.

  40. 40.

    Eric U.

    August 13, 2010 at 3:18 pm

    Today I had to sit through three light cycles because of an old person too timid to turn left. That sucked.

  41. 41.

    fasteddie9318

    August 13, 2010 at 3:18 pm

    @steviez314:

    Jeez, I’d never want to be in a foxhole with any Democrats.

    It’s a big tent party. You’ve got Democrats who would jump on a grenade for you, Democrats who would rather throw you on the grenade, and Democrats who would yank the pin on their own grenade to kill both of you.

  42. 42.

    Rosalita

    August 13, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    @Eric U.:

    and they still cut somebody off, right?

    I lived in Florida a few years, I know how they roll

  43. 43.

    WereBear

    August 13, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    @ruemara: What is he eating? My cat had the nickname of Hurl Boy until I got him off grains, and added probiotic to his canned.

    Now he’s happy as two clams with erotic intentions.

  44. 44.

    Sue

    August 13, 2010 at 3:25 pm

    @You Don’t Say:
    Meet ya there!
    @ruemara:
    One of my cats was on valium. Really. Talk to your vet.

  45. 45.

    MikeJ

    August 13, 2010 at 3:26 pm

    Stayed up til 4 this morning, saw several good meteors, but not the numbers I’m used to. I usually go out in the middle of nowhere, but just couldn’t be arsed last night.

    I took about 50-60 long exposures, but only managed to get one meteor pic, and even in it, you need to know in advance what you’re looking for. (red streak, right side center.)

  46. 46.

    Redshift

    August 13, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    The subgroup of Teh Left that you identify with sucks. /theonion

  47. 47.

    DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective

    August 13, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    @fasteddie9318:

    All of them better than the Republican who pulls the pin and hands you a grenade and tells you it’s a multi-tool.

    Or puts it in a shoebox and tells you it’s a pair of sneakers.

    Or tosses it into your yard and says it will play the 1812 Overture.

    Or insists that the country was founded on principles of grenade warfare.

  48. 48.

    Bill Murray

    August 13, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    In any case aren’t the Baby Boomer, professional leftists mostly people like Chris Matthews, Joke Line, Maureen Dowd? Sure they are really 1 out of those three (baby boomer, professional, leftist) but they are as far to the left as polite discourse is allowed to go. Sure they know when to clap at the symphony and how to wax poetic at wine tastings, but sometimes life requires more than that

  49. 49.

    applecoreinaz

    August 13, 2010 at 3:30 pm

    Stupid shit, this whole thread and both manufactured tropes. Just bring the “I’m lazy” and call it a week. Fuck.

  50. 50.

    DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective

    August 13, 2010 at 3:31 pm

    professional leftists mostly people like Chris Matthews, Joke Line, Maureen Dowd?

    Three pretty diverse folks. One is an embarrassing suckup to anyone with money, or power, or even looks. One is a joke line. And the other is a crazy shrew who thinks sarcasm is penetrating analysis.

  51. 51.

    soonergrunt

    August 13, 2010 at 3:32 pm

    @steviez314: not by much.

  52. 52.

    jl

    August 13, 2010 at 3:34 pm

    @DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective: Are you implying that Chris Matthews isn’t a crazy shrew?

  53. 53.

    Ailuridae

    August 13, 2010 at 3:34 pm

    @Trinity:

    Its an excellent and interesting beer. I never understood the “can’t cook” thing; are you scared of your stove?

    Google on beer pairing + recipes and fine something with minimal ingredients that sounds appetizing.

  54. 54.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    August 13, 2010 at 3:34 pm

    @applecoreinaz: It’s an open thread, impress us with some real tropes.

  55. 55.

    FormerSwingVoter

    August 13, 2010 at 3:36 pm

    i was once a treehouse
    i lived in a cake
    but i never saw the way
    the orange slayed the rake
    i was only three years dead
    but it told a tale
    and now listen, little child
    to the safety rail

  56. 56.

    gbear

    August 13, 2010 at 3:37 pm

    Sucktitude. BJ embraces it. Mudpit wrestling in the comment section daily.

  57. 57.

    Violet

    August 13, 2010 at 3:39 pm

    @ruemara: @WereBear:

    What is he eating? My cat had the nickname of Hurl Boy until I got him off grains, and added probiotic to his canned.

    Definitely look into the food situation. And think outside the box with it. A friend of mine’s dog has had a finicky digestive system for several years now. After trying various specialty foods, the vet has finally put the dog on a vegetarian diet. Yes, a vegetarian dog. And the dog is finally doing well. His digestive problems are down, his coat is healthier, and he’s overall happier and full of much more energy despite this being the hottest time of year. My friends are thrilled and feel like they’ve gotten their old dog back.

    You never know what the problem might be and it could be something you would never consider.

  58. 58.

    DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective

    August 13, 2010 at 3:41 pm

    @jl:

    No, not at all.

    Heh.

  59. 59.

    MNPundit

    August 13, 2010 at 3:42 pm

    It doesn’t work because old people of the professional left like Bob Herbet while critical (rightly) of Obama aren’t as livid at the wasted opportunity as we (younger) are.

  60. 60.

    Redshift

    August 13, 2010 at 3:42 pm

    @Stuck in the Funhouse: Support our tropes!

  61. 61.

    Allison W.

    August 13, 2010 at 3:42 pm

    Rachel Maddow doesn’t suck – even though I don’t always agree with her. I rec her to anyone who asks.

  62. 62.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    August 13, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    @Redshift: good one!

  63. 63.

    Allison W.

    August 13, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    @DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective:

    Three pretty diverse folks. One is an embarrassing suckup to anyone with money, or power, or even looks. One is a joke line. And the other is a crazy shrew who thinks sarcasm is penetrating analysis.

    they have a common thread – people I can’t stand listening to or reading.

  64. 64.

    Kerry Reid

    August 13, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    You know who really suck? Old members of the professional left. Splitters.

    Especially the ones with the first name “Bob” and the last name “Somerby.”

  65. 65.

    soonergrunt

    August 13, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    @Politically Lost: @SpotWeld:
    I’d say that’s something that could be represented by a picture of John’s pets on a coffee mug or a T-shirt maybe, with an “oh, noes, TERROR BABIES!” blazoned across the top in Homeland Security Red.

  66. 66.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 13, 2010 at 3:46 pm

    @Allison W.: Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?

  67. 67.

    Kerry Reid

    August 13, 2010 at 3:46 pm

    @mr. whipple:
    It reminds me of an alternative-universe version of A Hard Day’s Night:

    “I protested the war for you!”
    “I bet you’re sorry you won.”

  68. 68.

    Redshift

    August 13, 2010 at 3:47 pm

    @Stuck in the Funhouse: I’ve had it in the back of my mind for a couple of years, waiting for the right opportunity. Thanks for the opening!

  69. 69.

    soonergrunt

    August 13, 2010 at 3:49 pm

    @Stuck in the Funhouse:
    @Redshift:

    Go here for your tropes. All the tropes you could possibly want, including ones you didn’t know existed and didn’t know you needed.

  70. 70.

    Trinity

    August 13, 2010 at 3:50 pm

    @Ailuridae: Good suggestion and instead of “can’t cook” I should have said “prefer-to-sit-on-my-lazy-ass-and-just-drink-beer”.

    Cooking requires patience. Of which I have little.

    I do however have a wonderful little Italian restaurant near by that makes some delightfully fresh salads. hmmmm….

  71. 71.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 13, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    @soonergrunt: 404 error. Was that intentional?

  72. 72.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    August 13, 2010 at 3:52 pm

    @Redshift: I try to be useful.

  73. 73.

    Malron

    August 13, 2010 at 3:53 pm

    OhMyFuckingGod.

    I just saw the previews for some new sitcom starring Melissa Joan Hart. She’s still smokingly hot. And the olds suck. That is all. You may now return to your regularly scheduled freakout.

  74. 74.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    August 13, 2010 at 3:53 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    404 error. Was that intentional?

    MOAT

  75. 75.

    Third Eye Open

    August 13, 2010 at 3:53 pm

    Hey there everyone. I would like to ask that you all take a moment and vote for Apalachicola River Keepers in their endeavor to get a grant to continue monitoring the Oilpocalypse’s effect on the Apalachicola River. If you can’t do this, may I suggest you listen to this.

  76. 76.

    maus

    August 13, 2010 at 3:53 pm

    @Violet: I have a kitteh with a milk allergy, so limited-ingredient foods have been excellent. Mud Bay stores have limited-ingredient (petco should as well) and lib’rul communist Trader Joes have OMGSOCHEAP dry and wet food that lacks unnecessary dairy and other fillers.

    It’s also nice to not use food that won’t be from one of the few megavendors out there, I know my pets won’t be poisoned :)

  77. 77.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 13, 2010 at 3:55 pm

    @Trinity: Find things in your fridge, place them in a tortilla, add salsa, wrap, and eat. You can heat some or none of the the things as you choose.

  78. 78.

    J.

    August 13, 2010 at 3:57 pm

    That @Svensker is a trouble maker (and no doubt an old progressive).

    Btw, any of you old progressives remember Tom Lehrer’s “National Brotherhood Week”? Seems apropos, no?

    Also, if you have not seen this hysterical video made by a VP of IT at State Street re conference calls, check it out now.

  79. 79.

    tkogrumpy

    August 13, 2010 at 3:58 pm

    @MikeJ: Now this I like! (sorry John)

  80. 80.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 13, 2010 at 3:58 pm

    @Stuck in the Funhouse: I thought I was aware of all internet traditions, but WTF is MOAT?

  81. 81.

    stuckinred

    August 13, 2010 at 4:02 pm

    @Third Eye Open: Ah, I hope things stay well at

  82. 82.

    tkogrumpy

    August 13, 2010 at 4:02 pm

    @Eric U.: Are you speaking political left,or………..

  83. 83.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    August 13, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Why “Mother Of All Tropes” of course.

    It’s a new internet tradition due to me just now making it up.

  84. 84.

    Redshift

    August 13, 2010 at 4:04 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Looks like it should have been this. (If there’s no ‘http://’, the link ends up relative to the current page.)

  85. 85.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 13, 2010 at 4:07 pm

    @Stuck in the Funhouse: Aarrgghhh! Of course. How gauche of me not to have realized.

  86. 86.

    Paris

    August 13, 2010 at 4:09 pm

    Kids these days couldn’t produce a movement of the quality and sincerity of SDS if they ate 2 pounds of beans and took a laxative.

  87. 87.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 13, 2010 at 4:13 pm

    @Paris: And Donovan could kick Conor Oberst’s ass, right?

  88. 88.

    stuckinred

    August 13, 2010 at 4:18 pm

    @Paris:

    Sing a song for the children who are gone
    Sing a song for Diana
    Huntress of the moon and a lady of the Earth
    Weather woman Diana [

  89. 89.

    soonergrunt

    August 13, 2010 at 4:29 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: dammit!
    http://www.tvtropes.org

  90. 90.

    Allison W.

    August 13, 2010 at 4:30 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    LOL!!

  91. 91.

    NineJean

    August 13, 2010 at 4:57 pm

    @ruemara: How about water? I assume he has a bowl, but try giving him a running water source. There are fountains & such you can spend money on, but what I did with my thyroid-impaired cats was just turn on a dribble in the bathtub. An hour in the morning, and an hour or so in the evening really did shut them up. And, with thyroid issues, they need as much water as you can get them to drink.

  92. 92.

    j low

    August 13, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    @MikeJ: ah ha ha ha ha!

  93. 93.

    Larkspur

    August 13, 2010 at 5:14 pm

    Hey. Bill Moyers was born in 1934. Not a Boomer. You can acquit him on that count anyway.

    Besides, Boomers exist because the Greatest Generation saved the world, then came home and went at it like bunnies. Yes, bunnies. They could have held back a little. Or maybe dropped one, drowned one, you know, the alternate spawn-day plan.

  94. 94.

    Linda Featheringill

    August 13, 2010 at 5:24 pm

    Oh, come on now. Some of us old lefties are actually nice. Okay, we don’t want to talk about Vietnam any more. Would you like to talk about Haymarket? :-)

    The really sad thing about looking at some of this stuff for decades is that the more things change, the more they remain the same.

    Sigh.

  95. 95.

    Uncle Clarence Thomas

    August 13, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    Balloonbaggers throw the bestest circle jerks!

  96. 96.

    Larkspur

    August 13, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    I’m reading about the eve of the Civil War right now, because I haz been too ignorant about that whole deal, and holy jeebus, the 1850s was scary. There were some whacked out people with power and/or a soapbox. Dear god, if they’d had some steampunk version of nukes, we Boomers would have never existed.

    On the really cool side, some 40,000 cheering people watched Abraham Lincoln win his party’s nomination in Chicago. And I’m betting (since I haven’t read much further yet) that during Lincoln’s entire presidency, there never was heard a discouraging word, and the skies were not cloudy all day. You know, party unity-wise. Other people said mean things, but party unity was all good. ‘Cause of no Boomers, partly.

  97. 97.

    bobbo

    August 13, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    @Eric U.:

    Today I had to sit through three light cycles because of an old person too timid to turn left. That sucked.

    Seriously! It happens every day of my freaking life in L.A. Is it a universal phenomenon? And it’s not just old people, I think it cuts across all ages, genders, ethnicities, etc. What is it with people? Pull out into the intersection, idiot! So people behind you can turn too.

  98. 98.

    Toast

    August 13, 2010 at 5:51 pm

    My contribution to Boomer Bashing: Kate Miller-Heidke’s Politics in Space. The payoff comes at the 2:33 mark.

    (The studio version is better, but I couldn’t find a video of it. Also, I think this video is kinda cute.)

  99. 99.

    FlipYrWhig

    August 13, 2010 at 5:52 pm

    @Larkspur:

    Hey. Bill Moyers was born in 1934. Not a Boomer.

    Whoops. I thought he was a youngster when he worked for LBJ.

  100. 100.

    HyperIon

    August 13, 2010 at 6:17 pm

    @FlipYrWhig:

    I thought he was a youngster when he worked for LBJ.

    He was..a 30 year old.
    I am NOT looking forward to the first 20 something Press Secretary.

  101. 101.

    Eric U.

    August 13, 2010 at 6:17 pm

    @bobbo: doesn’t happen here every day, but I thought it fit the thread in an emily litella sorta way. Although it was almost as frustrating as anyone in the WH thinking they can watch TV and see anyone from the left. The “left” as played on TV are nothing more than a batch of pretenders that couldn’t be happier with Republican rule.

  102. 102.

    Paula

    August 13, 2010 at 6:58 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    To be fair, ANYONE can kick Conor Oberst’s ass. /haterade.m-ward FTW

  103. 103.

    Bill Murray

    August 13, 2010 at 7:03 pm

    @Malron: and it also has Joey Lawrence as an unemployed commodities broker Hart hires to be a manny for her niece and nephew. Whoa!

  104. 104.

    ruemara

    August 13, 2010 at 8:00 pm

    @NineJean: I’d be too scared he pee or poo in the tub. I wish I was joking.

  105. 105.

    FlipYrWhig

    August 13, 2010 at 8:13 pm

    @HyperIon:

    I am NOT looking forward to the first 20 something Press Secretary.

    Now I can only imagine a guy in skinny jeans and ironic hornrim glasses constantly texting his way through the “gaggle.”

  106. 106.

    Robert Waldmann

    August 13, 2010 at 9:02 pm

    Who said boomers are old ? We are just upper middle aged.

  107. 107.

    SciVo

    August 14, 2010 at 4:25 am

    @Eric U.: Be kind, turning left in a light cycle can be dangerously impossible (see 1:45 in). ;)

  108. 108.

    SciVo

    August 14, 2010 at 4:48 am

    @ruemara: My sister lets her cats jump on the counter when she runs the faucet for whatever, but if that doesn’t work for you, then you may need a cat fountain. I don’t know why they need running water; they’re just weird that way with their delicate systems, like the opposite of dogs that can fearlessly eat poop.

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