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by John Cole|  January 13, 20112:49 pm| 120 Comments

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Every time a front-page poster here discusses the nature of libertarianism, a kitten dies.

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  1. 1.

    mr. whipple

    January 13, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    Every time a front-page poster here discusses the nature of libertarianism, a kitten dies.

    The kitten finds libertarians so tedious it offs itself.

  2. 2.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    January 13, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    What would the invisible hand decide to do in this case?

  3. 3.

    Michael

    January 13, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    Q: Why did the Family Values Christian Conservative Teabagger cross the road?

    A: His manhood was stuck in the chicken.

  4. 4.

    Mark S.

    January 13, 2011 at 2:54 pm

    Amen!

  5. 5.

    Keith G

    January 13, 2011 at 2:54 pm

    Awww. You are so evil. I can tell you used to be in the GOP.

    Is that a Scottish Fold?

  6. 6.

    Violet

    January 13, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    That is the most pathetic looking kitten. Aww…

    Can we discuss the nature of chocolate chip cookies instead?

  7. 7.

    akaoni

    January 13, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    Thank you John, someone needs to stop the madness.

  8. 8.

    stacie

    January 13, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    Thank you John Cole.

  9. 9.

    4tehlulz

    January 13, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    y u blud 1i3i1 teh kitt3z

  10. 10.

    Tim

    January 13, 2011 at 2:56 pm

    Looks like a Scottish Fold, A.K.A. The Cutest Kittens In The Universe.

  11. 11.

    Southern Beale

    January 13, 2011 at 2:56 pm

    Looks like Erik Erikson just put a hit out on Sarah Palin.

    Someone needs to explain to me why CNN hasn’t fired him yet. This is just the lastest in a long, long line of offensive comments. Maybe they will usher in a new era of civility by sending him packing.

  12. 12.

    pragmatism

    January 13, 2011 at 2:56 pm

    john, good on you for bringing ED here and having his back. it must be rough to face a bunch of jackals who want their pound of flesh. that’s how i feel when i wade into mcmegtard’s comments or reason, etc. but then i remember that i chose to be there. but we all will be better for it.

  13. 13.

    Tom Hilton

    January 13, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    Best. Kitten pic. Ever.

  14. 14.

    WereBear

    January 13, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

    Not the kitten!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  15. 15.

    Michael

    January 13, 2011 at 2:58 pm

    Q: How many Libertarian Teabaggers does it take to change a lightbulb?

    A: None. It won’t get changed. They’d rather sit around and blame the dark on evil libruls. And by the time an evil librul lightbulb changer stumbles over the Libertarian Teabaggers to get the job done, the Teabaggers will complain about the way the lightbulb got changed and will scream loudly about both the delay and the tyranny of the imposition of light on their freedom to sit in the dark.

  16. 16.

    trollhattan

    January 13, 2011 at 2:58 pm

    In a rare bit of good news, a mountain is spared.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/science/earth/14coal.html?_r=1&hp

    Elections matter.

  17. 17.

    The Dangerman

    January 13, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    Just say no to catnip!

  18. 18.

    Legalize

    January 13, 2011 at 2:59 pm

    Cole: [low voice] Hold it! Next Commenter makes a move, the kitten gets it!

    Commenter 1 : Hold it, BJ-ers. He’s not bluffing.

    Commenter 2: Listen to him, BJ-ers. He’s just crazy enough to do it!

    Cole: [low voice] Drop it! Or I swear I’ll blow this kitten’s head all over this thread!

    Cole: [high-pitched voice] Oh, lo’dy, lo’d, he’s desp’it! Do what he sayyyy, do what he sayyyy!

    [Commenters drop their snark. Cole jams the gun into his neck and drags himself through the thread towards the bar]

    Commenter 3: Isn’t anybody going to help that poor kitten?

    Commenter 2: Hush, that’s a sure way to get him killed!

    Cole: [high-pitched voice] Oooh! He’p me, he’p me!
    Somebody he’p me! He’p me! He’p me! He’p me!

    Cole: [low voice] Shut up!

    /punt

  19. 19.

    Dave

    January 13, 2011 at 3:00 pm

    The kittens just can’t handle the free market.

  20. 20.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    January 13, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    Whew, the course has been recharted away from Endless, Tedious, Libertarian Discussions and back to Teh Cute.

    Ramming speed Mr Sulu!

  21. 21.

    mr. whipple

    January 13, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    Looks like Erik Erikson just put a hit out on Sarah Palin.

    Good God. Why do they hire these nutters? Enough!

  22. 22.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    January 13, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    @Southern Beale: He’s trying to pre-martyr her. I guess he’s hoping that there is some liberal out there paying attention to the TV, stroking his guns, and just waiting for someone to say that a Republican should get shot so that they can go do it.

    And yet he’ll argue that words don’t cause people to do things.

  23. 23.

    Triassic Sands

    January 13, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    I paid almost no attention to Palin’s latest whine for sympathy, so I was surprised today to see a number of sources criticizing her for her narcissism and need to make everything all about her. Doyle McManus (villager in good standing) apparently said this:

    “The Arizona shootings and their aftermath will probably be remembered as the end of Palin’s chances of being taken seriously as a Republican presidential candidate. She had an opportunity to rise to an occasion, and she whiffed.”

    Poor Sarah. Even when she’s busy whining about being a victim, people are using her words to victimize her further.

    I won’t be satisfied if people just stop taking her seriously as a candidate; I want her to disappear from the public scene altogether. Message to Sarah P: take your millions and disappear, please. God, I’m sick of her.

    Headline 1: Obama Seeks New Era of Civility

    Headline 2: Palin Seeks New Era of Sympathy

  24. 24.

    suzanne

    January 13, 2011 at 3:03 pm

    Thank FSM for Photoshop.

  25. 25.

    MikeJ

    January 13, 2011 at 3:03 pm

    Kitty doesn’t know how to handle the front pagers here. Tunch would have that gun pointed at the source of his trouble, not at himself.

  26. 26.

    jibeaux

    January 13, 2011 at 3:04 pm

    I’ve been waiting all day for this post. On the upside, all that eyerolling has got to have strengthened some muscles.

    Since we were discussing diet yesterday, did you know that on my loseit app, it only gives you TEN calories for a half hour of sexual activity? Walking at two whole miles an hour gets you fifty. What kind of lives do these app developers have, anyway?

  27. 27.

    Poopyman

    January 13, 2011 at 3:04 pm

    Awesome! However, my heart breaks for all the kittens who’ve died in the last two days.

  28. 28.

    piratedan

    January 13, 2011 at 3:05 pm

    kawaii…. and the cat is kinda special too

  29. 29.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    January 13, 2011 at 3:05 pm

    @Legalize: All I could think of at the end is “All right, you can have cake.”

  30. 30.

    Violet

    January 13, 2011 at 3:05 pm

    Is the kitten going Galt?

  31. 31.

    Svensker

    January 13, 2011 at 3:06 pm

    @Michael:

    LOL.

    In other news, I had to come over here to get some sanity. Just checked my FB page and my wingnut cousin is saying that Sheriff Dupnik needs to be fired for deliberately sabotaging the evidence against the shooter. Why would the Sheriff do that? Because “liberals want to wreck the trial because of their love for crazy people and their need to bring down the U.S.”

    Dear Pres. Obama, thank you for a lovely speech. But do you think it would be uncivil if I reached thru the internets and beat my cousin about the head and neck severely, prior to strangling him? I’m sure that’s not really uncivil. And it would so lower my blood pressure. Yours sincerely, Svensker

  32. 32.

    Mike E

    January 13, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    Libertarian LOLCat hates any scrutiny of its selfish, illogical arguments. Back off, bitchez!

    “I haz permit 2 carry, ’cause I can pay cash 4 it! Go urn urown”

  33. 33.

    Redshift

    January 13, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    @The Dangerman: Hey, man, there’s nothing wrong with a little ‘nip now and then!

  34. 34.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    January 13, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    @MikeJ:

    Kitty doesn’t know how to handle the front pagers here. Tunch would have that gun pointed at the source of his trouble, not at himself.

    My guess is that since Tunch doesn’t have opposable digits, he’d put out the word to the polydactle crowd for a hit. Especially the Key West contingent: they’ve known how to use guns since Hemingway blew his brains out and most definitely have digits to spare.

    Or I can hire out our current foster with the explosive diarrhea: another FP outburst on fucking libertarians and I’ll aim Roscoe’s arse in their general direction. Cleaning up that mess will take their minds off their emotional issues.

  35. 35.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 13, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    John, you are a sick, sick, deeply troubled man.

    (P.S. I’m laughing my fool ass off here.)

  36. 36.

    freelancer

    January 13, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    Finally…the angels dancing on pinheads discussions are almost as tedious as the nuances of libertarianism.

  37. 37.

    El Cid

    January 13, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    Hey, somebody needs to tell Al Gore that there’s snow everywhere! So much for ‘global warming’!

    Figures on Global Climate Show 2010 Tied 2005 as the Hottest Year on Record
    __
    JUSTIN GILLIS | New York Times | January 12, 2011
    __
    New government figures for the global climate show that 2010 was the wettest year in the historical record, and it tied 2005 as the hottest year since record-keeping began in 1880.
    __
    The new figures confirm that 2010 will go down as one of the more remarkable years in the annals of climatology. It featured prodigious snowstorms that broke seasonal records in the United States and Europe; a record-shattering summer heat wave that scorched Russia; strong floods that drove people from their homes in places like Pakistan, Australia, California and Tennessee; a severe die-off of coral reefs; and a continuation in the global trend of a warming climate.
    __
    Two agencies, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reported Wednesday that the global average surface temperature for 2010 had tied the record set in 2005. The analyses differ slightly; in the NOAA version, the 2010 temperature was 1.12 degrees Fahrenheit above the average for the 20th century, which is 57 degrees.
    __
    It was the 34th year running that global temperatures have been above the 20th-century average; the last below-average year was 1976. The new figures show that 9 of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since the beginning of 2001.

    Ha! “Government figures”! If you believe them then the next time you go to the Moon, why don’t you look for that flag that supposedly was put there by our astronauts in their mission to a soundstage, whoops, I mean to the Moon!

    Why don’t you get yer damn ‘scientists’ to look at the dang Sun for once, so that they can see it’s all temporary stuff caused by sunspots. No scientists have ever studied the Sun and said anything about sunspots.

  38. 38.

    beltane

    January 13, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    @Triassic Sands: That is the near-universal meme among the Villagers today, that Sarah Palin was given a golden opportunity to look presidential and she flubbed it badly. It took them a while to figure this out, but once they have someone typecast like that it is permanent. Palin is officially toast.

  39. 39.

    Redshift

    January 13, 2011 at 3:11 pm

    @Svensker: Way back when I worked in tech support, I wished our products all required the customer to have an electric shock device that we could control over the ‘net, for when they were being obnoxious idiots.

    Some days I wish all Internet users were required to have one.

  40. 40.

    cleek

    January 13, 2011 at 3:11 pm

    my cats denounce this climate of violence

  41. 41.

    licensed to kill time

    January 13, 2011 at 3:11 pm

    I’d been slogging through the libertarian threads and wanted to comment that I found it all tediously boring but I thought that would be rude or something. So I didn’t say it. There, anyway.

    Kitteh!

  42. 42.

    jibeaux

    January 13, 2011 at 3:11 pm

    @Svensker:

    If there’s anything that comes to mind when someone says “sheriff”, it’s definitely “liberals who love crazy people and want to bring down the U.S.”

  43. 43.

    TR

    January 13, 2011 at 3:12 pm

    @Southern Beale:

    Honestly, if I were a conservative, I’d be pissed that a clown who called Souter a “goat-fucking child molester” was made into a conservative representative on CNN.

    I think he should be removed, but frankly, the fact that conservatives are fine with him speaks volumes about their worldview. Sad.

  44. 44.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    January 13, 2011 at 3:12 pm

    Any musician types here? Winter NAMM just opened up which means I can look at all kinds of edrumming equipment I can’t afford.

    I blame libertarians, no, Republicans, no, Bush..wait, poor life choices.

  45. 45.

    Edward G. Talbot

    January 13, 2011 at 3:12 pm

    @JohnCole

    Now you’ve done it – it’s violent rhetoric like this that causes lone nutjobs with no affiliations whatsoever to kill innocent kittens.

  46. 46.

    MikeJ

    January 13, 2011 at 3:13 pm

    @El Cid: I keep trying to explain that “heat” means “energy”. There is more energy in the atmosphere, which means not just higher temps but more storms.

  47. 47.

    sukabi

    January 13, 2011 at 3:14 pm

    now this made me laugh… very tedious arguing an ideology that will only work in theory… the main component that’s left out of their ideology are the human factors… greed and quest for power.

  48. 48.

    The Dangerman

    January 13, 2011 at 3:14 pm

    @Svensker:

    …sabotaging the evidence against the shooter.

    How stupid do you have to be to believe that the shooter isn’t going anyplace other than a hospital or jail for the rest of his life regardless of what the Sheriff said? The Death Penalty may come off the table because of mental illness, but there is no innocent by reason of insanity in Arizona. It’s guilty and insane there; if and when he comes out of a mental institution, he goes to jail for the rest of his days.

  49. 49.

    Mnemosyne

    January 13, 2011 at 3:14 pm

    @Svensker:

    Well, at least now you know what he’s listening to on the radio every day.

    ETA: In case you missed it, here’s what Fred Clark at Slacktivist had to say: “Only a crazy person would take what we say seriously”

  50. 50.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    January 13, 2011 at 3:15 pm

    @El Cid:

    Ha! “Government figures”! If you believe them then the next time you go to the Moon, why don’t you look for that flag that supposedly was put there by our astronauts in their mission to a soundstate, whoops, I mean to the Moon!

    One of my favorite things to imagine is that we did not actually go to the moon, but now that the Chinese are trying, the government is secretly putting a mission together to go arrange all of the props.

  51. 51.

    Southern Beale

    January 13, 2011 at 3:15 pm

    @Belafon (formerly anonevent):

    He’s trying to pre-martyr her.

    Oh good grief, as if she hasn’t martyred herself enough already! Our Lady Of Perpetual Oppression. Every time she says something stupid and we point and laugh, she gets to whine and complain about how mean liberals keep saying mean things about her and it’s SO UNFAIR.

    Just. Shut. Up.

    Seriously, who cares enough about Sarah Palin to even bother? Not me.

  52. 52.

    Calouste

    January 13, 2011 at 3:16 pm

    @Belafon (formerly anonevent):

    There has been so much talk about an attack on Lady Blah-Blah from a certain corner that you would almost wonder if there is something these people know that we don’t.

  53. 53.

    Southern Beale

    January 13, 2011 at 3:16 pm

    @comrade scott’s agenda of rage:

    Been to winter NAMM. Enjoy playing with all the toys!

  54. 54.

    Greg

    January 13, 2011 at 3:17 pm

    @Beltane…not at Redstate. At Redstate her video was 11. And Obama was a disgrace.

  55. 55.

    nestor

    January 13, 2011 at 3:17 pm

    How many divisions does the kitten have?

  56. 56.

    Mark S.

    January 13, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    Chris Christie thinks Sarah needs to be unscripted if she wants to be president. Yeah, she’s really good at that.

  57. 57.

    kindness

    January 13, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    I’m showing my age but who remembers the National Lampoon cover ‘Buy this Magazine or we’ll kill this dog’:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/3116706556/

  58. 58.

    Southern Beale

    January 13, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    @El Cid:

    Figures on Global Climate Show 2010 Tied 2005 as the Hottest Year on Record

    But … but … but … there’s SNOW on the ground where I live! Not possible!

    /hurl

  59. 59.

    Jonathan

    January 13, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    Hey John, you wanna cool it down with the inflammatory rhetoric? It only takes one over-the-edge kitten to see this post…

  60. 60.

    soonergrunt

    January 13, 2011 at 3:19 pm

    He’s bluffing. The gun’s safety is on.

  61. 61.

    Xenos

    January 13, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    @MikeJ: And as I learned from living in Canada for a couple years, it rarely snows on the really cold days. A warmer winter is a snowier winter.

  62. 62.

    beltane

    January 13, 2011 at 3:20 pm

    @licensed to kill time: Congratulations! I avoid the libertarian threads because libertarianism is too absurd to even be taken seriously as an intellectual abstraction. ED might be the nicest guy in the world, but he sure is silly and his threads seem more like an exercise in babysitting than an actual discussion.

  63. 63.

    Mnemosyne

    January 13, 2011 at 3:21 pm

    @The Dangerman:

    To be fair, these are often the same people who insist that the CEO of Procter & Gamble really did go on TV and admit that the company is run by Satanists even though the story’s been repeatedly debunked over the past 30 years.

    In other words, they’re really, really stupid.

  64. 64.

    hueyplong

    January 13, 2011 at 3:21 pm

    “… once they have someone typecast like that it is permanent. Palin is officially toast.”

    There is always “The Comeback” scenario, but you probably can’t do that purely on Facebook without running a campaign for some particular office. So yes, she’s probably toast in terms of the role she has been hoping to play. The right’s best move is to declare her a martyr so as to insulate others who do the same things from the criticisms she has received.

    She will remain a right wing celebrity until cranky old white men no longer find her physically attractive. Bill Kristol will probably stroke it unto the grave, but we all hope and pray that he himself is not technically a demographic.

  65. 65.

    New Yorker

    January 13, 2011 at 3:21 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2SvhDY23So&feature=player_embedded

    This one disappeared into history because it came just as the US and Iraq were about to face off the first time, so the world didn’t much notice it. Plus, it wasn’t as bloody (thankfully) as Tienanmen Square, nor did it produce any iconic images like “Tank Man” (actually, the Soviets ran over some protesters who stood in front of the tanks). Still, it was yet another nail in the coffin of the Soviet Union.

  66. 66.

    Legalize

    January 13, 2011 at 3:22 pm

    @The Dangerman:
    That and the investigation became federalized about 14 seconds after the shooting happened. But that’s probably worse because you know who has control of the FBI, don’t you?

  67. 67.

    kindness

    January 13, 2011 at 3:23 pm

    @Legalize: I love Blazing Saddles.

  68. 68.

    sukabi

    January 13, 2011 at 3:25 pm

    @hueyplong: they’d pretty much written McCain off as a serious candidate by the end of 2007… campaign was out of money and wasn’t getting much attention either by the media or the public… then his beltway media friends decided they liked his bbq and tireswings and voila, comeback kid… and he beshit his campaign with Palin… good times.

  69. 69.

    georgia pig

    January 13, 2011 at 3:25 pm

    The tree of liberty is watered from time to time with the blood of American Curls and Pomeranians.

  70. 70.

    kdaug

    January 13, 2011 at 3:26 pm

    @Calouste: It’d be one hell of a black flag. I feel like Beck’s been pushing this line, too.

  71. 71.

    licensed to kill time

    January 13, 2011 at 3:26 pm

    @beltane: I actually sighed when I saw the topic come up yet again. A world weary, been there, heard it, got the t-shirt kind of sigh.

  72. 72.

    Redshift

    January 13, 2011 at 3:26 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    ETA: In case you missed it, here’s what Fred Clark at Slacktivist had to say: “Only a crazy person would take what we say seriously”

    I had missed it. That’s really good.

  73. 73.

    sukabi

    January 13, 2011 at 3:27 pm

    @Michael: and there was a purty goat on the other side.

  74. 74.

    Comrade Dread

    January 13, 2011 at 3:27 pm

    I thought the approved method of kitten execution round these parts involved less guns and more skull f***ing.

  75. 75.

    General Stuck

    January 13, 2011 at 3:28 pm

    That’s okay, every libertarian, like every kitten, has nine lives and a bucket full of free market/tuna

  76. 76.

    hueyplong

    January 13, 2011 at 3:28 pm

    @sukabi:

    Of course, McCain also had the adoring attention of beltway media types.

    Not so sure Palin can carry that off, and real sure that the “establishment Republicans” of the corporate variety don’t rate her at the top of their list.

  77. 77.

    Yurpean

    January 13, 2011 at 3:30 pm

    Long-time listener, first time caller here.

    I’m moved to comment to apologise on behalf of the UK (tis where I’m from, but I have an unhealthy obsession with US politics, hence being here).

    It has come to my attention that a certain Piers ‘Moron’ Morgan is replacing Larry King on CNN. I can only say sorry, and that we in Britain are not all like that. That is all.

    (Although if you do take him to your hearts, it” hopefully mean he’ll stay on your side of the pond. In which case, ignore what I said above, tune in, and enjoy this charming[sic] British import…)

  78. 78.

    sukabi

    January 13, 2011 at 3:34 pm

    @hueyplong: true, but never underestimate the ability of the beltway crowd to swallow whatever nonsense their corporate overlords tell them to.

  79. 79.

    BGK

    January 13, 2011 at 3:35 pm

    Obligatory Scottish Fold.

  80. 80.

    sukabi

    January 13, 2011 at 3:35 pm

    @Calouste: they do like them some martyrs….

  81. 81.

    cyntax

    January 13, 2011 at 3:36 pm

    Every time a front-page poster here discusses the nature of libertarianism, a kitten dies.

    At this point, we’re almost out of kittens.

  82. 82.

    Andy K

    January 13, 2011 at 3:37 pm

    First person to bitch about the refs in this weekend’s Stillers-Ravens game will be to blame for this.

  83. 83.

    Special One

    January 13, 2011 at 3:38 pm

    Shut up kittens!

    Be champions.

  84. 84.

    Andy K

    January 13, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    @Special One:

    Ameobi!

  85. 85.

    hueyplong

    January 13, 2011 at 3:45 pm

    Andy K (3:37 pm, Thurs): “First person to bitch about the refs in this weekend’s Stillers-Ravens game will be to blame for this.”

    JC (Thus): “They’ll probably flag Harrison during the National Anthem.”

    Game over.

  86. 86.

    burnspbesq

    January 13, 2011 at 3:46 pm

    @trollhattan:

    “In a rare bit of good news, a mountain is spared.”

    For the moment. This is far from over. There will be litigation and lobbying galore.

    Now, if Brad Paisley and Bob Huggins were to chain themselves to a tree on top of the mountain …

  87. 87.

    Jay in Oregon

    January 13, 2011 at 3:46 pm

    I must be a sick bastard, because that picture makes me laugh.

    And thank you.

  88. 88.

    Shygetz

    January 13, 2011 at 3:50 pm

    As a purveyor of high-quality kitten coffins, I vote for more front-page libertarian posts!

  89. 89.

    polyorchnid octopunch

    January 13, 2011 at 3:52 pm

    @comrade scott’s agenda of rage: Real drums are better.

  90. 90.

    Andy K

    January 13, 2011 at 3:52 pm

    @hueyplong:

    Nah, it’s the playoffs. He gets to start with a clean slate.

  91. 91.

    hueyplong

    January 13, 2011 at 4:07 pm

    @Andy K:

    So we have to wait for the first possession.

  92. 92.

    trollhattan

    January 13, 2011 at 4:25 pm

    @BGK:

    And all this time I was thinking it was a particularly painful kilt injury…

  93. 93.

    suzanne

    January 13, 2011 at 4:25 pm

    @hueyplong:

    Bill Kristol will probably stroke it unto the grave

    Clorox doesn’t make enough bleach to scrub THAT disgusting image from my brain.

    Vomit.

  94. 94.

    Barb (formerly Gex)

    January 13, 2011 at 4:25 pm

    @beltane: That is only fitting. All this time her qualifications could have been the straw that broke the camels back. But not in this polity. Nope, it’s all about appearance.

  95. 95.

    asiangrrlMN

    January 13, 2011 at 4:32 pm

    Awwwwww, so cuuttttttte! Love the kitty (and the call for a moratorium on libertarian posts.

    @jibeaux: They are incorrect. According to random calculator on the internets, a 150 pound person engaging in intercourse for half an hour burns 144 calories. Even if it’s only foreplay, the same person is burning 50 calories.

  96. 96.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 13, 2011 at 4:38 pm

    @nestor:

    How many divisions does the kitten have?

    As many as the Pope does.

  97. 97.

    suzanne

    January 13, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: I assume that’s for whoever’s on top, aye?

    Hey. I’m just wondering. Purely academic.

  98. 98.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 13, 2011 at 4:44 pm

    @suzanne:

    I assume that’s for whoever’s on top, aye?

    Not necessarily.

  99. 99.

    THE

    January 13, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    @asiangrrlMN:

    According to random calculator on the internets, a 150 pound person engaging in intercourse for half an hour burns 144 calories. Even if it’s only foreplay, the same person is burning 50 calories.</blockquote.
    So not really "burning".
    More like smoldering, bursting into flame and then fizzling out.

  100. 100.

    englishmajor

    January 13, 2011 at 4:46 pm

    Can’t download the Palin “blood libel” bs fast enough so bagged it. Hate to tell y’all but technology-disability is a blessing. Proof: just found my old Walkman and am listening to a Dolly Parton Collector’s Series cassette on some craptacular nostalgia-foam earphones. Dolly, bless her tiny shoes, makes the libertarians go away. “Jolene!”

  101. 101.

    Brachiator

    January 13, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    @beltane:

    That is the near-universal meme among the Villagers today, that Sarah Palin was given a golden opportunity to look presidential and she flubbed it badly. It took them a while to figure this out, but once they have someone typecast like that it is permanent. Palin is officially toast.

    This is actually making the Village quite nervous. The problem is that, the more La Palin looks like a dope in front of most people, the more beloved she becomes to her base.

    What the Village fears most of all is the inevitable angry mob reaction when Palin is kicked to the curb in favor of “more electable” GOP candidates in 2012, and her devoted minions demand that she be given a chance or some active role or be made queen of the universe.

  102. 102.

    blahblahblah

    January 13, 2011 at 4:56 pm

    @Belafon (formerly anonevent):

    Wouldn’t that be ‘the invisible paw’?

  103. 103.

    asiangrrlMN

    January 13, 2011 at 5:03 pm

    @suzanne:

    I’m with Omnes Omnibus on this one. I have heard reports of plenty of exercise being had from the bottom–just sayin’. And, of course, there’s always side by side. Hm. Now I’m curious. Oooh, linky here with that breakdown. I like what it says about the woman’s O!

    @THE: Heh. True. But, it’s still more than the 10 calories cited above by jibeaux.

    This topic is much more fun and edjumacational than libertarian philosophy!

  104. 104.

    suzanne

    January 13, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: That’s it. That’s my new lose-the-baby-weight plan. Ten orgasms a day.

    Hey, it’s for my health!

  105. 105.

    Brachiator

    January 13, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    Happy Birthday, Wikipedia

    Wikipedia, the world’s fifth-most-popular website, is turning 10 on Saturday.
    __
    More than 350 events celebrating the online encyclopedia’s anniversary are planned across more than 111 countries — 10 in Germany, 13 in Pakistan and 70 of them in India, where Wikipedia is planning to open an office

  106. 106.

    asiangrrlMN

    January 13, 2011 at 5:21 pm

    @suzanne: There you go. It’s a good mood-enhancer as well, so I’m sure hubby won’t mind!

  107. 107.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 13, 2011 at 5:22 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: You forgot trapezes.

  108. 108.

    asiangrrlMN

    January 13, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Oh believe me–I didn’t forget.

  109. 109.

    WaterGirl

    January 13, 2011 at 5:50 pm

    If what we see and hear around us has no influence, I wonder why I have caught the song “Tis a gift to be simple…” going through my head several times today?

  110. 110.

    WaterGirl

    January 13, 2011 at 5:52 pm

    @jibeaux: Um, maybe they are talking about sexual activity that only involves one human?

  111. 111.

    fordpowers

    January 13, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    awww.. a kitteh after my own heart.

  112. 112.

    Jeanne ringland

    January 13, 2011 at 6:10 pm

    @Svensker:

    One of the main reasons I have not friended most of my cousins on FB, and one of the two (and I have lots, see: Ozarks, Missouri: inbreeding) is teetering on the brink of being defriended if she ever EVER posts anything like that.

  113. 113.

    elf

    January 13, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    and here after the POTUS speech last night I was feeling rather contrite for having posted many of the tweets from yesterday’s rambunctious doings on my facebook page..

    ya go and put this up…

    ok yeah I am lolrofl

  114. 114.

    Jay in Oregon

    January 13, 2011 at 6:24 pm

    @suzanne:

    That’s it. That’s my new lose-the-baby-weight plan. Ten orgasms a day.

    Your husband is going to look like one of the aliens’ victims in Lifeforce at that rate.

  115. 115.

    dcdl

    January 13, 2011 at 6:58 pm

    @Michael: LOL, you’re on a roll with the jokes.

  116. 116.

    Uncle Clarence Thomas

    January 13, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    .
    .
    I have heard President Obama’s heartfelt and inspiring call to action – “to live up to the example that young Christina Green expected in how our democracy should function” – and I will proudly honor his call by being the first to voluntarily, of my own free will, stop ordering American citizens to be murdered in cold blood, or prisoners to be indefinitely detained, without any trial or conviction in a court of law.

    Also too, I will try to find some more things to do and bring them back to you.
    .
    .

  117. 117.

    Ija

    January 13, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    Maybe we should have posts on the nature of liberalism instead. I bet there’s some vigorous disagreement among the front pagers about that. It has the added advantage of being actually relevant.

  118. 118.

    jinxtigr

    January 13, 2011 at 8:31 pm

    @jibeaux:

    Since we were discussing diet yesterday, did you know that on my loseit app, it only gives you TEN calories for a half hour of sexual activity?

    Use both hands, get twenty! :)

  119. 119.

    Ija

    January 13, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    That is the cutest kitty picture I have ever seen. Is it real or Photoshopped? Quick, someone call PETA.

  120. 120.

    BrianM

    January 13, 2011 at 11:51 pm

    @Ija: I was thinking today that a discussion of “liberalism, how the fuck does it work?” would be a good idea.

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