Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

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

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

People are weird.

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

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Republicans do not trust women.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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  7. 7.

    busybeingborn

    My first-ever Balloon Juice comment, appropriately self-congratulatory.

    I write a lot about film, at my own blog and some other places, and this week wrote about the 1970 Paul Newman movie “WUSA,” out on DVD recently. It’s only so-so, but it foresaw a lot of the FNC/Limbaugh shite we see on the airwaves nowadays.

    Here’s my own blog post, with a link to the original review (at Slant Magazine): http://busybeingborn.com/?p=1142&preview=true

    Pleasure to be commenting after years of reading.

    John.

  11. 11.

    Brian

    Jon is talking about foreign rip-offs of American movie, and I’m bitching about religion making us stupid (or, as always, just taking B.J. stuff and adding my own 2 rupees).

  13. 13.

    Scott

    My blog is full of comic book reviews. Bah, even I’m bored with that crap.

    The thing I think is especially interesting, however, is this thing about the governor of Wisconsin just out of the blue threatening to call out the National Guard on state employees…

  16. 16.

    Brachiator

    You’re my favorite work of art: Standard of the Day (not technically a reader blog) writes about the song that represents the high-water mark in American civilization.

    One of the people I commute with is a school teacher. She noted that some of her second graders were glad that they were off this coming Monday and didn’t much care why.

    I suggested that she tell them that the country was celebrating Lincoln’s Valentine’s Day.

  23. 23.

    Another Commenter at Balloon Juice (fka Bella Q)

    @Paul in KY: That kind of explains you willingness to encourage la_chan on here; you seem to gravitate to teh crazy. :-)

  24. 24.

    Brachiator

    @Tom Hilton:

    Um, isn’t that a week early? President’s Day is the 21st.

    Some California schools (and some other institutions) are observing Lincoln’s Birthday, which falls on Saturday, on Monday Feb 14.

    They also get President’s Day the week after.

  26. 26.

    MikeJ

    WTF is up with that word salad full of spam at the Bill Thomas article? A full page of no para breaks full of links about boner pills. Perhaps you only see it with javascript turned off.

    Still, not the sort of site I’d link to.

  29. 29.

    Southern Beale

    @Josh James:

    That’s cool. My writing makes people cry … from BOREDOM.

    :-)

    Seriously. I hate writing fiction. That’s usually what I’m supposed to be doing when I’m over here bitching and moaning about the Republican caliphate. I have great ideas though. Maybe I should write scripts instead.

  31. 31.

    Kavan

    @MikeJ: MikeJ any chance you’d be willing to email a screenshot or something to editor AT ChangingAging DOT org? It sounds like we have some kind of a hack but I can’t see it from my browser.

  33. 33.

    The Ithacan

    We are not seeing a problem (at changingaging) either but thanks for the heads up.

    We are poppin the hood for a look around.

    Pretty fun getting a link from Doug J.

    I read BJ every day.

  35. 35.

    R-Jud

    @Josh James: Quotes from Real Genius gets a thumbs up from me.

    I haven’t updated Books of All Time in a week or two, but I am sitting here pecking at the next post, which compares Old Testament God’s behavior to various mental illnesses in the DSM-IV. Not terribly original, but still.

  37. 37.

    J.W. Hamner

    Gluttons for punishment: Chimpanzee Tea Party adds a riff to this excellent piece on “foodies”.

    Hey that’s me! Awesome! Though now I’m getting flamed by foodies… even though I am one. I guess it’s a brief taste of what the Big Leagues are like.

  38. 38.

    Barkley G

    I don’t have much other than not-so cheap shots at torture advocate Marc Thiessen and Erick Erickson.

    Thiessen uses Marxist logic from the 19th century to justify GOP opposition to any changes to the Affordable Care Act.

    Erickson is upset about gay republican showing up at his CPAC party.

  40. 40.

    friendthegirl

    Stinkin’ Thinkin’: Muckraking the 12-Step Treatment Industry

    We’re still on the outer fringes of crankland, because — you know — what kind of a jerk would try to take away an addict’s last hope.

    But, if you want a great case in point for what can go wrong if we give creationists a seat on the school board — or allow religion to influence public policy — visit us and see what happened to a whole branch of medical science and social services when the faith-healers took over.

  42. 42.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    I have been completely obsessed with Egypt for the past 18 days, to the detriment of my various bloggy socializing across the webs, and today I write about the idea that perhaps on today of all days, rather than get all Smart and Know It All about Everything That Will Go Wrong in Egypt — perhaps today is a day to honor and share in the Egyptians’ joy.

    http://bit.ly/fqTVnC

    I’m not sure it’s a very BJ-friendly post — it’s kinda Up with People.

  45. 45.

    mzrad

    I officially launched my site http://CentralCoastFoodie.com in December and am having fun developing several themes related to sustainability, including “eat your garden,” “learn to cook,” “ride a bike,” and “support your neighbors.”

    For the first post in the “Food on Film” series, I reviewed _Tampopo_ (1985), the Japanese film about learning to live through food. It was fun to produce my own interpretation of this film and to exercise publishing control of my feminist, English major thoughts right there on my own site. VERY COOL!

  46. 46.

    Brachiator

    @Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther:

    I have been completely obsessed with Egypt for the past 18 days, to the detriment of my various bloggy socializing across the webs, and today I write about the idea that perhaps on today of all days, rather than get all Smart and Know It All about Everything That Will Go Wrong in Egypt—perhaps today is a day to honor and share in the Egyptians’ joy.

    Very interesting stuff. Thanks for this.

  48. 48.

    AmericanStudier

    Hi All,

    If you get a chance and are interested, I have a daily AmericanStudies blog, featuring one interesting American thing per day (the most recent one is a repeat, but it’s mostly new daily, I swears). I’d love to get your thoughts and takes and responses there! Thanks,

    Ben

  51. 51.

    gil mann

    Yeah, so “Standard of the Day?” Clicked over there, figured oh, must be a different B-Sol, no way the ex-WWF staffer who runs “The Vault of Horror” has a blog where he waxes eloquent about Rodgers & Hart.

    But yep, same dude. Multitudes! People contain ’em.

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