Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Books are my comfort food!

I really should read my own blog.

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

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

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

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Everybody saw this coming.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Fight them, without becoming them!

One way or another, he’s a liar.

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  4. 4.

    Trainrunner

    To recap:

    Ed smugged and condescended to BJ in the comments of another blog (when Ed claims he never has time to engage comments here. Hmmm…)

    Ed came here, notpologized, played victim, and asked if we should vote him off.

    John yelled at US and said Ed is staying, and fuck all y’all.

    Then Tunch showed up.

    That about it?

  9. 9.

    joeyess

    That picture would be Tunch showing all you bad boys and girls to your LOCKDOWN cell for the evening.

    Straighten up or it’ll be the fire hose and a delousing for all of you.

  10. 10.

    eemom

    Just scanned a few of the previous threads. OMFG.

    You know, y’all front pagers are really a bunch of drama queens.

  11. 11.

    WyldPirate

    @Nicole:
    You had a more productive night than we did here.

    Now I’m scared of Georgia.

    That is a place one is well-advised to be wary of and avoid except for brief visits.

  12. 12.

    jl

    all right! thanks for the Tunchpic.

    See folks, what happened was is that even the thought of an ombudsman for this here lefty blog scared Cole out his wits.

    And now we get some service.

  13. 13.

    Mnemosyne

    I will laugh my butt off if it turns out asiangrrlmn had to turn in early and missed the Tunch picture.

  15. 15.

    jl

    @Mnemosyne: And I think she knows how to find Cole.

    People should think twice about taking ombudsgate too seriously.

    When does Cole ever ‘engage with the commenters’ except to chew somebody out?

    There are many things on this blog make not one single lick of sense. And Cole is 100K percent committed to that tradition. How long do you have to read it to figure that out?

    Edit: I think ‘idiosyncratic’ is the word I was trying to think of. This blog is idiosyncratic, which is polite for goofy. People need to deal with it.

  16. 16.

    Citizen Alan

    Completely off topic, but I love that the ad at the top of the page is advertising velvet smoking jackets and bow ties, of all things. It’s like somebody has Cole mixed up with Tucker Carlson.

    UPDATE: Sweet Lord! That velvet smoking jacket goes for nearly $1000! Who on earth would buy such a thing?!?

  17. 17.

    Menzies

    Tunch: the world’s single best drama deterrent.

    I told y’all sooner or later threats of Tunch-sitting would defuse the situation. The TSA should just hire him.

  18. 18.

    RareSanity

    @Citizen Alan:

    Completely off topic, but I love that the ad at the top of the page is advertising velvet smoking jackets and bow ties, of all things. It’s like somebody has Cole mixed up with Tucker Carlson

    You know that the ads you see at the top are based on your browsing history, right?

    (snickers)

    Nice try, Tucker…

  19. 19.

    General Stuck

    All Hail Tunch

    HE is the master of this realm

    The benevolent ruler of Balloon Juice.

    and there is a lot of him to rule.

  20. 20.

    Angela

    @Trainrunner: I think all you missed is that Cole invited Ed to throw some elbows in the comments, but Ed was satisfied (I guess) with posting a hit and run.

  21. 21.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @jl:

    People need to deal with it.

    No, we don’t. You can’t make us. I will refuse to deal with it if I want. Stop being a blogofascist and ordering people around… Now, I’ve gone and done… I ordered people around. I would tell myself to stop it but that would be giving orders as well. I guess you can see my dilemma. But I don’t want to presume… I’ll just stop now.

  22. 22.

    srv

    @Trainrunner: We should be thankful he has time to shit on the front page and not task him to defend the pile. Or even noticing that he left one, unless another front pager calls him out on it. Very glibertarian of him.

    There are some great front pagers here, but there are others just interested in excreting their ideology.

  24. 24.

    sfinny

    Pictures of Tunch always make my happy, but I”m also amazed by the shortness of his tail. Granted my cat has a longer (maybe 1.5x) body than Tunch, but his tail appears to be more than twice as long. I’ve just never seen such a compact body/tail combination on a cat. Very cute though.

  26. 26.

    jl

    @Omnes Omnibus: That’s the spirit! The beleaguered followers of this intrepid social democratic blog will pull through this difficult crisis if we all adhere like gentlemen to the BJ code.

  29. 29.

    jl

    @RareSanity: I did not know that. I refreshed a few times and I got ads for auto repair schools, credit counseling, mail order wine of the month club, auto insurance for bad drivers, and now, toilet paper, over and over again, ads for toilet paper.

    No velvet jackets for me.

    I’m a loser and big bag o’ fail.

  30. 30.

    Mike Kay (Hippie Hunter)

    i didn’t know Tunch was the new host of MSNBC’s “Lock-Up” series.

    What’s next, Tunch hosting “America’s Most Wanted”?

  31. 31.

    RareSanity

    @jl:

    I get the same auto repair schools, however, I also get more manly “Watch college football online” and ads for the Roku player…

    At least your not getting smoking jackets and bow ties…

  33. 33.

    Citizen Alan

    @RareSanity:

    You know that the ads you see at the top are based on your browsing history, right?

    You sure about that? For the longest time, Ann Coulter books would be advertised whenever I came here, and nothing in my browsing history should direct me to that she-demon. I assumed it was some ad-based holdover from when Cole was involved in PJ Media. Or am I totally misremembering something — I’ve been working on a motion for rehearing for eight hours and I’m punch drunk … or possibly Tunch drunk.

  34. 34.

    jl

    @RareSanity: I never thought of it that way before. This blog is weirder than I thought.

    Sorry:

    “if we all adhere like gentlepeople to the BJ code”

    I am going now, something reminds me to check on the TP situation around here.

    Ok, now I got a cheap ski resort vacation offer. That cheers me up enough to go to sleep now.

  35. 35.

    RareSanity

    @Citizen Alan:

    The banner ads at the top and bottom of page are.

    The one on the top left side is from “BlogAds”, and based on the content on the blog.

  36. 36.

    YellowJournalism

    Tunch! You just want to grab a handful of that fat/fur and snuggle…even knowing that minutes later you would be suffocated by angry cat ass.

    I got all the way through the first shot post that started this, began the next one, and then gave up.

    May you all sleep with images of frolicking flower-named puppies dancing in your head. If the cat starts dancing, though, you’re in for some brain damage.

  39. 39.

    Amanda in the South Bay

    I’m glad I’ve been too busy with work lately to stick my nose in this business, but I’ve always appreciated EDK here on this blog, and as a bog standard left winger, eh, whatever.

    anyhoo, back to drinking wine and watching TMP.

  40. 40.

    Citizen Alan

    Now, I’ve gone from $1000 velvet smoking jackets to trade school ads about automotive repair. Lo, how the mighty have fallen.

  41. 41.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Mnemosyne: You know, I was thisclose to not returning for the night. But, I decided to pop my head in. Glad I did because I would have been FURIOUS! if I woke up tomorrow and discovered that I missed yet another Tunchie pic.

    Cole, you and me, we’re good now.

    @jl: Oh, believe me, I can find him if need be. Me and my trusty rusty pitchfork.

    Signed, BJ Late-Night Doyenne

    @Tattoosydney: Hi, hon. You here to offer a wet nap?

  44. 44.

    Annamal

    Awwww, I just looked down and realized that there’s been a cat on my lap for the last 20 minutes without me noticing.

    Why do I get the feeling that stealth cattage is not a problem with Tunch?

  45. 45.

    Ailuridae

    @Pigs & Spiders:

    It is Boston Brewing’s best product IMAO. Unless maybe the Double Bock is still around. It is tough to quibble with their success but it is a damn shame that a national brewery like them is making such a pedestrian flagship beer (the Pplain old Lager). I have the same problem with my beloved Goose Island (Brewed 1/2 mile from me) and their decision to hand their hat on Honker’s Ale.

  47. 47.

    Cerberus

    I imagine this is more or less an open thread, so how about something even more depressing than ED’s latest whine-fest about non-existent oppression…

    Like actual oppression.

    Tomorrow is the annual day of fun known only as “Transgender Day of Remembrance” where we honor the many, many, many, many men and women struck down in violence for the “crime” of being transgendered.

    Here’s this year’s list of the dead.

    It’s only 30 this year, with 10 occurring in the US, slightly less than one a month, which is actually an improvement (looks like Federal Hate Crime Law is starting to help a little).

    Of course, the list includes Mariah Qualls a transgender activist from San Francisco, the same city I’ve moved to…and getting back into street activism for, among other things, transgender issues, so there’s that lovely threat laid over our heads.

    But hey, let us all weep for ED Kain’s fictional oppression. It’s certainly the more important issue.

    Even with Hate Crime protections, 10 american citizens, with families and loved ones, struck down for who they were, in terrorist message to a small minority community no one could give a damn about.

    Because they were different. Because they were odd. Because they lacked the privileges and protections offered to others.

    There’s also this hanging over us in the bay area.

    But ED Kain, he’s more deserving of our sympathy, more deserving of defense from fictional calls to be fired from a blog.

    RIP Derrick Jones.

    RIP Mariah Qualls

    RIP the too many dead due to bigotry and hate.

    It’s nights like tonight that I hate the world.

  49. 49.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Tattoosydney: Not bad. I am about ready to go off and write now. How about you? And, I haven’t seen Yutsy tonight. I think my greed scared him off last night.

    @Cerberus: Aw, crap. That totally fucking sucks. I really wish there didn’t need to be a day of remembrance (because I think this shit should stop yesterday).

  50. 50.

    Ailuridae

    Quick terse movie review. The New Harry Potter is quite good.

    Faster the new movie starring The Rock is the best vengeance\vendetta movie since Payback.

  52. 52.

    Cerberus

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Me too.

    I just try and cling to the ray of sunshine that is how much shorter this year’s list is compared to last year’s. Maybe with the Hate Crimes Bill and some of the slow UN and EU actions, we might slowly be starting to treat the pandemic of slaughter as serious.

    Maybe one day, the violent slaughter will cease and we can focus on the 1 in 3 Transgender people who end their lives themselves rather than live in a world where we’re slaughtered like animals.

    …

    I seem to be failing at rays of sunshine tonight.

  53. 53.

    bago

    Only wimps don’t enjoy a good back and forth. Personally, the leftier than thou vs obot discussions were boring. I want my tldr rants and amusing invective back!

  54. 54.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Cerberus: It is good that the list is shorter–however, even one name on the list is one name too many. It’s hard to find a ray of sunshine in this matter. I’ll have a moment of silence tomorrow in remembrance. This is so senseless and heartbreaking.

  55. 55.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN:

    It’s hard to find a ray of sunshine in this matter.

    A transgender judge was just elected to the California Supreme Court. The wheel of justice turns but slowly, but it DOES turn.

    (You knew I was gonna take on that challenge, amirite?)

    @Tattoosydney: Cookies. After the fucking week I had, I’m going for cookies.

  58. 58.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: Thank you. Sunshine without the wind blown up my ass. That’s one reason I fake-married you. Glad I didn’t scare you off!

    @Tattoosydney: Excellent! Give a smooch to the real hubby for me. And, yeah, I feel the same way about the ring. Love it. Would not shell out that kind of monies for it.

    @Tattoosydney: Cookies, damn it. Yutsy and I are in the States.

  60. 60.

    Yutsano

    @Tattoosydney: Flattish, roundish, easy to bake, usually sweet, I don’t give a fuck what word is used, as long as we both know what we’re talking about.

    (I told you I had a rotten week, I’ll get over the crankiness at some point soon though.)

    And I have a devilish career goal in my head: the IRS runs a liaison office in Canberra.

    @asiangrrlMN: My Canadian friend called them biscuits, but his family was Welsh (he even knew a bit of it, his grandmum never learned English), my Sicilian Canadian ex called them cookies. So go fig.

    And right back atcha hon. :)

  61. 61.

    Anne Laurie

    @Citizen Alan:
    __

    Sweet Lord! That velvet smoking jacket goes for nearly $1000! Who on earth would buy such a thing?!?

    Someone who believes the rest of the world will be impressed that he can drop a K on a completely inutile article of clothing. I’m guessing Megan McCardle’s Tax-Status-Changer owns a couple, but I’m a hater.

  62. 62.

    Anne Laurie

    @Omnes Omnibus: __

    Velvet? How gauche.

    The old rule used to be Thanksgiving through Mardi Gras, but I think velvet season starts at Halloween now. Smoking jackets, on the other hand, are never a good fashion concept.

  63. 63.

    Anne Laurie

    @Tattoosydney: __

    It’s my fake-gay-wedding anniversary tonight,

    Congratulations! And may you celebrate many more together!

    (PS, smooch Pedro for me, too.)

  64. 64.

    Josie

    Good grief! I’m gone a couple of days and look at the mess you kids have made. I’m certainly glad that Tunch is here to straighten you out.

  65. 65.

    Comrade Mary

    Don’t be hating on smoking jackets. When I was twenty, I got a bee-yoo-ti-ful satin-ish smoking jacket in gold, brown and rust, with black lapels, at one of my favourite vintage stores.

    But please feel free to hate on those green parachute pants I got at Le Chateau. I should have let the cat take those out and bury them.

  67. 67.

    Platonicspoof

    Tunch, now equipped with Dyson Ball™ technology for greater maneuverability while vacuuming with Tuna Cyclone™ engineering that uses centrifugal forces up to 150,000 times the force of gravity.

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