Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

You cannot shame the shameless.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

The revolution will be supervised.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

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

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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

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  4. 4.

    sherifffruitfly

    I watched the rubicon pilot or something on hulu a few weeks ago. I don’t recall being very impressed, but mebbe I didn’t give it enough of a chance.

  8. 8.

    apocalipstick

    I’m enjoying Rubicon. I don’t for the life of me understand people who moan, “It’s so slow,” especially if those same people like Mad Men(MM is a great show, but the pace is glacial). Rubicon‘s pace reminds me of those great ’70s conspiracy thrillers like The Parallax View and even All the President’s Men. Now, I could be wrong. The payoff could turn out to be a dog’s breakfast, but the ride so far has been nice.

  15. 15.

    schrodinger's cat

    I watched the first season, got bored with the second season and haven’t watched since.

  17. 17.

    jeffreyw

    DVR is catchin all the mad men and rubicons for me, we watchin crazy heart or anyway Mrd J is. I’m sippin coffee with vanilla and likin it. be still my tappin foot, dammit, I don’t like country.

  20. 20.

    Dee Loralei

    What no Leverage love on this blog? Sheesh they did the whole Massey Energy, WVa., buying aJudge/ Atty general thang tonight. And I watched closely and no Tunchie, Lily, Rosie sightings. Damn that John Rogers!

    I like The Glades too. And I have Rubicon on the DVR and am only 2 behind. And yea, the acting isn’t great. But I still have hopes for it being another Fringe.

  21. 21.

    mr. whipple

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    He is well but isn’t losing weight. I captured an incredible ‘view from my couch’ of him and sent the picture to JC, but I think it got deleted with 3,000 other emails.

  24. 24.

    JGabriel

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    i seemed to get a “meh” vibe [re: Inglourious Basterds] from the critics.

    Initially, there was meh vibe. Once the critics realized it was just as much about movies as it was a war film, they loved it.

    Alternately, the initial reaction might have been a Cannes too cool for school vibe that died out as it went into general release.

    .

  26. 26.

    Linda Featheringill

    About Mad Men:

    The actors do a good job. Unfortunately, the writers do a good job, too, and they remind me of the 50s. Who would want to relive that? Jeez!!

    I suspect that the folks who like Mad Man are too young to remember that era.

    Maybe it’s like MASH, which was a rollicking comedy about life on the front line during the Korean War. Yeah. Right.

    [Another damn war that reduced the size of my family and I still don’t know what we were fighting about.]

  27. 27.

    adolphus

    I’ve watched a little bit of Rubicon and liked it, but it looks like a TV show you have to stick with, and I am not optimistic about my time this next few months. Maybe I’ll catch it on the intertubes when I have more time.

    But one thing caught my eye when I tuned in to see Mad Men. I only saw the pilot, but these people are supposed to work at a super secrete, maybe CIA maybe not, intelligence agency, right?

    So why are they having their daily briefing on the ground floor on the streetside of a downtown office building with huge windows that weren’t even remotely tinted or meshed? My gym has better security than that.

  28. 28.

    DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective

    How could Rubicon be to anyone’s “liking?”

    How many fucking episodes of this sleep inducing shit are they going to broadcast before they actually start telling a story? If they tried any harder to not tell whatever story they have, they’d have to run the thing backwards.

    Jesus. Watching the cat sleep is more fun than this.

    Edit — the most action on this “show” is the traffic whizzing by the windows in the shithole where these people work.

  30. 30.

    DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective

    Can you pause the Rubicon playback? The cat just twitched.

    I don’t want to you , you know, miss anything.

  31. 31.

    Wordsmith

    Not a fan of Man Men or Mad Men. Just saw Jon Hamm in ‘Stolen.’ He’s such a 5 oclock shadow kind of guy. Rubicon looks interesting from the ads…just forget to watch.

  33. 33.

    Bulworth

    I’m hanging in there with Rubicon although like some of the posters here, I’m ready for a bit more intrigue. I think the brief case the boss dude gave Chase–I mean Will–is bugged.

    I have yet to watch MM, which if I did it would only be to see more of Ms. Hendricks and then I would inevitably gripe that she wasn’t in the show enough.

  34. 34.

    flyerhawk

    Last night’s episode showed the most promise for Rubicon, which has been lackluster so far.

    This kind of show is right up my alley normally. But it’s been too disjointed so far. But last night’s episode at least had some coherence.

    I think it has possibilities but it really needs to settled into a storyline.

  35. 35.

    August

    I was 21 in 1961. I had no interest in the philandering of advertising whizzes then, nor can I drum up any today.

    I don’t watch that much television, but during the course of a week usually catch Rubicon two or three times (via Tivo). It gets better every time I look at it. I especially like the wild streak in the character called Miles, and find myself identifying surprisingly strongly with Will. Anyone who’s ever worked in a large organization that slightly resembles that spy outfit is likely to recognize the way the older man Spangler misunderstands and yet has a crush on his promising young employee down in Washington. I also like the acting of those playing Grant, Tanya, Maggie (Whipple’s “Redhead,” I believe), Ingram (I think it is) the mid-level boss, and Ed, the code breaker Will keeps visiting for help. I don’t know what to make of the woman who’s trying to figure out why her husband committed suicide, but I love the music and especially the cello whenever she starts snooping around.

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