Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Democrats are back in array!

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

Never forget that he train is barreling down on Trump, even as he dances on the tracks.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Come on, man.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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  1. 1.

    MikeJ

    How do you mean “working again” for links? Offsite links still show up wrapped in garbage javascript, so very, very broken.

    Were they broken in some other way?

  3. 3.

    MikeJ

    Offsite links are wonderful. Having them wrapped in javascript that forces them to open in a new window sucks.

    1) I can’t decide if I want a new window, new tab, or reuse this tab
    2) I can’t copy link location
    3) I can’t bookmark the location, just the javascript wrapper
    4) I can’t open it in a new tab in the background as it switches focus to the new window as soon as I click it
    5) It’s a sign of creeping soçialism! Get the gubbmint out of my medicare links!

  5. 5.

    freelancer

    @John Cole:

    In Chrome, I’d usually open up links with by Right-clicking, and then selecting “Open Link in New Tab”. Now, Right-clicking doesn’t do that, but clicking offsite links automatically opens them in a new tab. I very much like the new way.

  6. 6.

    Brisbane Belff (formerly G. Nelson Buttnergle (formerly Mumphrey (formerly Renfrew Squeevil (formerly Mumphrey Oddison Yamm (formerly Mumphrey O. Yamm (formerly Mumphrey))))))

    My 3 and a half year old daughter wants me to sit on the floor in the freezer room with the lights off so she can shine her flashlight in my face while she snuggles me. Since there’s nowhere quite so snuggly as the freezer room.

    Also we had a gas leak this morning, so the gas company shut off the gas and we have no heat or hot water. And they can’t come in to plug the leak until at least Tuesday. It hasn’t gotten too cold in here yet, but the fun is we have 2 more days to bask in the chill. Good times.

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    @John Cole: Several of us have reported the same problem as MikeJ and freelancer, it’s just that we all use different words to describe the problem.

    Edit: there’s also a good description by TooManyJens at #116 in the “another maintenance” thread.

  8. 8.

    MikeJ

    @freelancer: Control click also opens in new tab. Which I often like to do. I also often like to bookmark links so I can read them later, which you can’t do without having a new window forced on you, being made to look at it right then, and then bookmarking it.

  9. 9.

    sherifffruitfly

    YYYYEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!

    Gore Vidal is with me on Airplane! being the funniest movie EVAH!

    Knew there was a reason I loved that guy!

  11. 11.

    WaterGirl

    @asiangrrlMN:
    @John Cole:
    The problem with this is that if they FORCE a new window, then those of us who wanted to right click and choose between a new window and a new tab, cannot choose. We are now stuck with a new window; by forcing a new window, they take away each person’s choice and limit us all to a single option (the new window).

  13. 13.

    Jeanne ringland

    Hmmm. Now that I’m back on the Mac I don’t see anyone’s avatars and everything else looks pretty much like it did yesterday. The avatars were only visible on my laptop which is running Vista. I should change that soon. My soon-to-be-ex-son-in-law gave me a copy of Windows 7.

  14. 14.

    Morbo

    I’m the opposite of freelancer; I like to use Balloon Juice as my base of operations and surf about the blogosphere from here. Links opening in new window will ruin that.

  15. 15.

    01jack

    What kind of a programmer sits down and says, “You know what’s wrong with the Web? Links. They got links wrong. I can do better with some code of my own.”

  22. 22.

    Brisbane Belff (formerly G. Nelson Buttnergle (formerly Mumphrey (formerly Renfrew Squeevil (formerly Mumphrey Oddison Yamm (formerly Mumphrey O. Yamm (formerly Mumphrey))))))

    Ooh, bonus! Now also when everything stretches off to the right, the ads on the left stretch over to their right, hiding the post and the comments! It’s great, since I’d much rather read a bunch of crummy ads than the writing I came here to read! I don’t mean to sound bitter, since I’m not. I’m just practicing being, I think the kids these days call it “Snarky”.

  25. 25.

    kdaug

    Apparently share/save has destroyed first comments on a thread.

    But diggin’ the new 1-pixel drop shadow on the comment box!

  29. 29.

    madeinamerica

    @BD of MN: If you have a mouse with a wheel-scroll in the middle, clicking with that will also open the link in a new tab. I just discovered this recently and use it constantly now.
    Also, Control + normal-click does the same for me.
    ETA: I can edit now?
    ETA2: Wow, yes I can! Two thumbs up.

  30. 30.

    liza

    Everyone, if you middle-click on a link, it will open in a new tab. Much faster than right-clicking and selecting from a menu. As far as I know, this works in Firefox, Chrome, and IE.

  38. 38.

    Jeanne ringland

    @PS: Yes, it does. I just liked the idea of that center-click shortcut and I wanted to whine a little. ;-)

  39. 39.

    SiubhanDuinne

    There used to be a “Respond” link/tag at the end of each main f/p post. Clicking on that would bring me directly to the Reply box for my own comments — handy when I didn’t want to scroll through 50-80-100+ comments. It’s a real issue on the BlackBerry. Any possibility of restoring that? TIA.

  44. 44.

    liza

    @WaterGirl: I don’t own a mac, so I can’t verify, but try this. It does require a three-button mouse.

    It may be possible to configure a mac touchpad to middle-click using system preferences (not sure, though).

  46. 46.

    sparky

    yes, Vidal plays himself to the hilt, but that is only because he knows that on the stage of a dying, sentimentalist and sensationalist culture, who else could he play?

    thanks for a wonderful clip.

    ps: Vidal’s essays are well worth reading, if only for the exquisite snark.

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