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JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

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

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

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

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

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

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

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T R E 4 5 O N

Not all heroes wear capes.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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Let there be snark.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

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  2. 2.

    Brian S (formerly Incertus)

    I don’t drink gin at all anymore, because it turns me into a raging asshole (as compared to the barely civil person I tend to be while sober). Irish whiskey, however, turns me into the kind of guy who’ll buy the whole bar a couple of rounds. That’s why I buy it in the 1.5 liter size and don’t go out much.

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    Greenhouse Guy

    John, do not… do not turn on C-Span. Sharia Angle is bullshitting away and pissing me off.

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    BombIranForChrist

    You’re a misophobe. You hate fear.

    Or a homogynist. A man with only one kind of gin.

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    beltane

    After a bad encounter with gin in eleventh grade I can not even bear the smell of the stuff. Just reading this post makes me want to hurl.

    Too bad they couldn’t have sent Chris Coons to debate Crazy Lady Angle. He was much better than Harry Reid at this sort of thing.

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    arguingwithsignposts

    @beltane:

    Too bad they couldn’t have sent Chris Coons to debate Crazy Lady Angle. He was much better than Harry Reid at this sort of thing.

    Maybe get Christine O’Donnell over there and have Linda McMahon referee the insanity cage match instead. Ratings gold, i tell ya!

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    WaterGirl

    @stuckinred: Hearing that gives me a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.

    Edit: oh great, now two of you have said it. I am not ready for us to lose either the house or the senate.

  22. 22.

    Ash Can

    if I am a misogynist and a homophobe, does that make me asexual?

    No, it makes you Phyllis Schlafly.

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    Anya

    @Greenhouse Guy: I just turned it off. Poor Nevada, they have to choose between a nutcase and a man without any personality. He should be demolishing her. At the risk of sounding ageist, I hate angle’s old lady wobbly voice. She sounds like a character from a David Lynch movie.

  26. 26.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    Request: In recent posts lists, could have the the number of comments printed beside each one. Sometimes, I just want to know how many people have commented on a post. I don’t actually want to have to go into it.

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    kdaug

    @Greenhouse Guy:John, don’t. Just don’t. This will only increase your hangover. Shut the TV off, drop the mouse and the keyboard, and go play with the dogs.

    I mean, shit – Americanism? What the fuck is that?

  29. 29.

    Mike in NC

    I once bought a girlfriend a t-shirt that read “Gin Makes Me Sin”, as she loved a good Gin & Tonic. I found out she wasn’t amused and dumped me the day my ship deployed.

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    IronyAbounds

    I’m watching the Reid-Angle debate. My God, how the fuck did this country get to the point where a candidate for United States Senate is a stammering, unintelligible dimwitted hack? And then there’s Sharron Angle who is ten times worse. Woe is us.

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    Stuck in the Funhouse

    BTW- if I am a misogynist and a homophobe, does that make me asexual?

    I makes you something much worse. An Obot

  33. 33.

    Brian S (formerly Incertus)

    @Jeff: I guess it’s the particular herbs that do it to me, because I’m fine on vodka, though I don’t often drink it because it has no flavor (or it shouldn’t, anyway). Body chemistry to me is like magnets to the Insane Clown Posse, I guess. All I know is that my friends have told me I need to stay the hell away from gin if I want them to hang around, so I do.

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    Cain

    A sexual.. aren’t you that already? Date night for you is probably drinking beer with Rosie and Lilly at your side.

    cain

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    Politically Lost

    BTW- if I am a misogynist and a homophobe, does that make me asexual?

    About the only thing left is self love. I imagine you do that well.

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    Anya

    @arguingwithsignposts: Sad he couldn’t box his way out of this debate. It’s as though he does not even know what’s in the health care bill he passed. He stammered about breast cancer screening and players wearing pink shoes. God, it was awful.

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    Bella Q

    @Jeff:

    Gin is basically an herb-flavored vodka. It’s no stronger or different, really.

    Well, except for the gin tastes good on account of its being herb-flavored, that is.

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    Left Coast Tom

    I recently tried Anchor Distilling’s Junipero Gin on a backpacking trip (having sampled at home beforehand), and decided it tasted wonderful at home but tasted even better in the backcountry. Major yum.

    So I decided I need to explore craft gins further. Alas, winter’s not a good time for long backpacking trips in western mountains, and I prefer wine as a home beverage and for short backpacking trips, so it’ll be a while before I can report results.

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    fucen tarmal

    @IronyAbounds:

    maybe nevada could split the difference and elect the actor who played the character in the movie casino based on the pileggi book, that allegedly was based on harry reid..the county commissioner with the useless nephew.

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    Greenhouse Guy

    @kdaug:

    Amercanism? I’m lost on that one. Perhaps I should stop sneaking in on the debates(sp?). Now it’s on to Washington! YooHoo!!! more senatorial stuff. They know better than you and I could ever know!

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    Suck It Up!

    @Anya:

    they have to choose between a nutcase and a man without any personality.

    that’s not exactly a tough decision.

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    DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.

    @Citizen_X:

    So many good possible post titles with gin in them. I may drink some gin this weekend just so I can use one.

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    Martin

    Harry Reid seems to be suffering from the same 3 years past the bend reasoning and sentence construction deficiency that McCain did. I hope he wins, but he needs to retire soon. I don’t remember him being this lost in his own words a few years ago.

  49. 49.

    Ash Can

    And in other news, we have this item, submitted without comment:

    Poor Illinois Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney, the victim of an extremely cartoonish “error:” His name has been misspelled as “Rich Whitey” on voting machines in nearly two dozen Chicago wards, half of them “predominantly African-American.”

  51. 51.

    WereBear

    Maybe it doesn’t make any sense, but gin has an unenjoyable effect on me; hangs back, then whacks me over the head, and upsets my stomach.

    Vodka acts far more measured and predictable.

    Rum, on the other hand, just makes me jolly. I must be a pirate at heart.

  52. 52.

    IronyAbounds

    @fucen tarmal:

    Nevada does allow for “none of the above” which to be honest I might be tempted to pick (if I lived in Nevada – I’m stuck with a useless vote against A-Hole McCrabby). Perhaps the moderator, who had to be thinking he’d been dropped into the Twilight Zone, will pick up a few votes. He was the only coherent one on stage.

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    Stuck in the Funhouse

    I love both my senators here in Nm, and would not trade them for any. And I will, as always vote straight dem ticket, but wouldn’t mind at all if the DINO fart Harry Teague goes down and Steve Pearce gets his old seat back, which is a near certainty. He was all kinds of fun back in the Bush days, when I called or wrote his offices on a regular basis. Especially for his ignorant campaign to kill the Mexican Gray Wolf project here in the Gila. Though no wolf has ever attacked a human, the idiot and his idiot winger constituent posse were constantly fear mongering the dog devils gonna eat your babies. And him and his staff were dumb as a dumptruck full of hammers. I would call and ask for Rep, Gumby, and they would say who? and I would say, oh sorry, Rep Pearce. Fun times that worked off a lot of rage I felt in those days.

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    Jay S

    Being a misogynist and a homophobe makes you a misanthrope.

    We hear every day about misogynists that have sex with women and homophobes that have sex with men.

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    debit

    Although in another drink or two I will be explaining to you all how much I love Lily.

    A couple of weeks ago, I had a dream that you were singing love songs to her. Think Air Supply or the sappier hits of Styx (You’re my laaaaaaaady!). I didn’t mention it then to spare your dignity, but since you’re all hopped up on gin, I figure you won’t even remember this post in the morning.

  58. 58.

    JWL

    The first horrific hangover of my life was a result of gin overload, and led to my life-long aversion of hard liquor. It’s funny, too, because as wiped out as I was the next day, the party the night before has remained a good memory all these years later.

  59. 59.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    @Martin:

    Then you’ve never seen him on teevee for an interview. He has always been the creepiest politician ever when the camera is on. I mean cringe worthy. And I don’t hate Reid like a lot of libs do, but he is just an awful PR face for the senate majority.

    Though there are few peeps on either side that would do much better imo, it is a thankless hard job. The best maj. leader, in my lifetime was hands down Trent Lott, he had the perfect personality for the job, and I was glad to see him go down for being the racist he is and was. But he was a great maj. leader for the wingnut cause.

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    Boudica

    I just saw Rick Perry’s ad against Bill White. He just won the election….focused on White’s spending in Houston and said we don’t need any more of White’s Obama-style spending. We’re Texas toast.

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    Sentient Puddle

    God, that Nevada senate debate made my IQ drop by about 5 or 6. Reid was…eh, he showed he had a brain. But Angle, my fucking god. My brain was a sploding left and right at how damn much she was lying.

    Reminded me of this, unfortunately.

  65. 65.

    Wilson Heath

    if I am a misogynist and a homophobe, does that make me asexual?

    Only if your Christine O’Donnell.

  67. 67.

    Stuck in the Funhouse

    Doc who ‘inspired’ torture program gets $31 million Army contract

    Now this is something to get pissed enough to call out Obama and the DOD.

    Plus, The dude tortured dogs in the sixties, goddamn him.

  69. 69.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Wilson Heath: I don’t know how serious you are, but I definitely get that vibe from her. To paraphrase Hank Hill, that girl ain’t right, in several different ways.

  70. 70.

    Apikoros

    BTW- if I am a misogynist and a homophobe, does that make me asexual?

    John, don’t worry, the sheep will respect you in the morning.

    On that Gin thing, tho… Remember Flanders and Swann!

    Now if it were gin, you’d be wrong to say yes,
    The evil gin does would be hard to assess
    (Besides it’s inclined to affect my prowess)
    Have some Madeira, m’Dear!”

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    Uriel

    I really don’t get the confusion on this topic- the guy did just post soliciting pics of the ladies men pets of balloon juice.

    I mean, Hellen Keller could see where this is going….

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    ronin122

    @Cain: Came to say just as much. JC when was the last time you even had a girl? NTTIAWW being single and not looking (as am I, though it’s more imposed on me due to other matters), just you seem more interested in the canine variety of bitches.

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    burnspbesq

    if I am a misogynist and a homophobe, does that make me asexual?

    No, but it may limit your opportunities to get laid.

  76. 76.

    Noodlearmed UDFA previously 2liberal

    A Gin-Soaked Trotskyite Pop-In-Jay Open Thread

    Christopher Hitchins reference?

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