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Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

I really should read my own blog.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

This really is a full service blog.

“But what about the lurkers?”

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

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

Battle won, war still ongoing.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This blog will pay for itself.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

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

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  5. 5.

    JPL

    To brighten your day I’m reposting an email I got earlier?

    > Did you know that:
    >
    > The words “race car” spelled backwards still spells “race car”?
    >
    > “Eat” is the only word that, if you take the first letter and move it to the
    > last, spells its past tense, “ate”?
    >
    > And if you rearrange the letters in “so-called Tea Party Republicans,” and
    > add just a few more letters, it spells: “Shut the f**k up, you freeloading,
    > progress-blocking, benefit-grabbing, resource-sucking, violent, hypocritical
    > douche bags, and deal with the fact that our president is black and that you
    > nearly wrecked the country under Bush.”
    >
    > Isn’t that interesting?

  6. 6.

    Comrade Mary

    I just made a metric ton of Jamaican patties and a huge dish of lasagna. I really should work on those pear pastries, too, but I’m just going to plead carb overload.

  7. 7.

    demkat620

    I got my calendar today!

    My Jack is in October and November. It is really nice. You and Laura W did a really good job.

    Thanks to you both!

  11. 11.

    Max Power

    The main usefulness of the stupid rule Keith Olbermann apparently contravened is as a tactical countermeasure designed to stun liberals.

    They are reduced to starting their defense with “Well, he did break the rules, it’s true. It was a breach of contract. Very regrettable, unfortunate, he shouldn’t have done that, he was stupid, I acknowledge it was dumb, two dumbs don’t make a right…”

    “…but, I say he’s exactly the same as Fox News, and they’re still on the air.”

  13. 13.

    Calming Influence

    “The Good Guys” with Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks is really starting to grow on me.

  15. 15.

    beltane

    Howard Dean is back in the news. He’s back in Vermont acting as chair of Gov-elect Peter Shumlin’s transition committee. Can’t say I mind one bit, as Dean himself was a very effective governor.

  21. 21.

    Comrade Mary

    @ruemara: I’m afraid this batch of patties is reserved for the lovely guy coming over with the chain whip tonight, but I’ll be prepared for the next batch.

    Also, I am way late to start soaking my fruit for black cake this Christmas, but even 5-6 weeks should be worth something.

  22. 22.

    Dennis SGMM

    @General Stuck:
    Beauty! Rescuing furniture is amazingly satisfying. I can’t believe some of the the things that people throw away for the lack of knowing how to use a piece of sandpaper.

  25. 25.

    jl

    @Max Power: Ha ha. they didn’t get me. I said ‘if KO did not fallow the rules’. News developments over the last few hours suggest to me that there are no rules other than what ahole idiotic MSMBC executives say are the rules from one minute to the next, in an amazingly brilliant attempt to humiliate themselves in public.

    Jeebus, what craven asses. As a commenter on another thread said, this circus is shithead money brutes panicking over election results. Teabagger is in, liberals (progressive, whatever you call them are out). I guess in order to appeal to the new wave, the execs think acting like brutal arrogant nincompoops will endear them to the Tea Peoples.

  27. 27.

    Uncle Clarence Thomas

    .
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    I don’t understand why we’re 26 posts into an open thread and no balloonbagger has got their delightfully center-right hate on for Jane Hamsher.
    .
    .

  28. 28.

    eastriver

    Bitch, bitch, bitch.

    Mister John (lump of) Cole (in my stocking)

    God, take some psychotropic drugs and cheer the fuh-huh-huck up.

    You’re buzz-killing the ENTIRE INTERNET.

  30. 30.

    KDP

    Happy, happy! Joy, joy!!

    My Balloon-Juice calendars arrived this afternoon. My boy, Shadow, looks just lovely on July and September. I am going to enjoy looking at everyone else’s pets during the course of the next year.

    Thanks to the designers and organizers who put this project together!!!!

  32. 32.

    eastriver

    see, look at that KDP kid. He’s chipping handfuls of Zoloft. The glass just isn’t half-full, but — GODDAMN! — that’s one byoooooteeeeful glass.

  33. 33.

    General Stuck

    @Uncle Clarence Thomas:

    dude, the matrix has changed, and the Jane Hamshers of the Internet are no longer with mojo. If that is the correct term.

    I haven’t figured out precisely why just yet, but firebagging seems so yesterday, as does responding to it.

  36. 36.

    lamh34

    Okay,

    today is my birthday, so I’m gonna be changing my “name” to reflect that.

    FYI, I guess I’m the commenter formerly known as lamh32…

  37. 37.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Tattoosydney: I’ve never met anyone else who knew who Hunters and Collectors were! Are they big in Oz? I saw them open for Midnight Oil in Connecticut in, I think, 1989. (And I love The Church’s _Starfish_ album, though I didn’t keep up after that.)

  39. 39.

    Tattoosydney

    @The Grand Panjandrum:

    Sherlock Holmes

    It’s very good. Great acting, very funny, highly suspenseful, and a very faithful portrayal of Holmes as a 21st century sociopath/asperger’s/pick your psychosis and a slightly bewildered but in no way doddering Watson. Light as a feather in parts, but a ripping night out.

  40. 40.

    Mnemosyne

    @Tattoosydney:

    So far I’ve only seen the second episode, but I thought it was pretty good, barring some Stupid Screenwriter Tricks. (Really? We’re supposed to believe that Watson — a ex-soldier who saw action in Afghanistan — would just aimlessly wander away from the person he was supposed to be protecting? WTF?) The two leads are really well-cast — as soon I heard Martin Freeman was going to be Watson, I was like, “Yeah, I could see that!”

  42. 42.

    Tattoosydney

    @FlipYrWhig:

    I’ve never met anyone else who knew who Hunters and Collectors were! Are they big in Oz?

    They certainly were/are. There are a few songs which are integral to the childhood/young adulthood of almost every Aussie below the age of 40…

    “Throw your arms around me” is generally sung drunk, and “Holy Grail” is the unofficial anthem of the AFL.

  43. 43.

    Calming Influence

    @Steeplejack: The writing is sharp, and like the best comedic actors, Bradley Whitford doesn’t worry about letting it all hang out. His character is the perfect blend of every old-school cop cliche.

  46. 46.

    Tattoosydney

    @Mnemosyne:

    So far I’ve only seen the second episode, but I thought it was pretty good, barring some Stupid Screenwriter Tricks.

    There were a few of those, yes, but the characterisation and slightly frenetic editing just swept me on past that for the most part.

    The two leads are really well-cast—as soon I heard Martin Freeman was going to be Watson, I was like, “Yeah, I could see that!”

    Mmmm. Cute Watson.

  48. 48.

    Annie

    @General Stuck:

    Absolutely beautiful table. Well done. And, Charlie is as adorable as ever. Love the photo :)

    My adorable little darling kitty is doing better, I think, with her hyperthyroidism. Got the cream from the vet, and so far I am hitting about 75% getting it in her ear — got her head twice and her butt once. She is a smart one. Somehow she knows the difference between my approaching her for kisses and approaching her to squirt her ear.

    To get back at me she has decided that she will only eat from my hand. Yuk. Wet cat food in my hand. My hand stinks, even though I am using dish soap to wash. But, she seems happy — a small price to pay for love!

  49. 49.

    General Stuck

    @Annie:

    My adorable little darling kitty is doing better,

    That’s great news Annie. Cats are finicky sometimes. :)

  51. 51.

    Anne Laurie

    @Tattoosydney: I was gonna say, “What, no Kerli?” — but apparently the person who told me she was Australian was, um, geographically challenged. Good theme song for Michele Bachman’s next campaign, tho:

  53. 53.

    Annie

    @hamletta:

    Thanks. I will try. Actually Susan and I have a lot in common — except for the fact that I am 5 feet tall, have a far more limited figure, and haven’t made a movie except for one video in graduate school that hopefully has been destroyed. :)

  56. 56.

    KDP

    @lamh34: Happy birthday! You share the day with Gary Farber of Amygdala. I hope your has been pleasant, fun, and a day that you will look back on with pleasure.

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