Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

White supremacy is terrorism.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

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

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

“Alexa, change the president.”

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    PENGIE!!

    Did you know penguins have no natural fear of humans in the wild? Apparently all the predators that can threaten them (as adults anyway) are in the water, so anything in the solids is regarded as a curiosity. Which is why you can have naturalists stand in the middle of a flock of pengies and they just go whatevs. Such neat lil birds.

  2. 2.

    Nate

    Lust is an appropriate term given what that penguin is actually doing to that zookeeper’s hand…

  3. 3.

    kdaug

    Without objection, the motion is so ordered.

    “Tickling the penguin” it is.

    (Do remember to add it to the lexicon, though. Most people will have no fucking idea what it means.)

  4. 4.

    Yutsano

    BTW does this mean pictures of teh SamKitteh will also henceforth be referred to as “tickling the penguin”?

  5. 5.

    sukabi

    I propose that whenever something is just over-the-top squee we refer to it as “tickling the penguin.”

    is a FINE sentiment, however there are those who define “squee” in a much different way, and will turn “Tickling the penguin” into something employing ball-gags, wetsuits and the poor…

  7. 7.

    Raenelle

    That video makes it into my “cutest things I’ve ever seen” set. Naming that set “tickling the penguin” is a damned good idea.

  11. 11.

    Yutsano

    @JenJen: Well I admit I’d tickle Sidney Crosby. There I said it. :)

    @John Cole: Inevitable as the tide, mi amici. Inevitable as the tide. Bill O is on that case I hear.

  14. 14.

    TaMara (BHF)

    My cats generally ignore computer sounds, even the occasional cat video. But when I played this they all went onto high alert. I’m guessing that is actually a penguin distress call and my guys were all in for penguin dinner.

  16. 16.

    JCT

    Nothing like an instant grin.

    OK, you guys — turning something so cute into something salacious?

    I’ve been chuckling over this since yesterday — sent it to my kid (who was studying in the stacks at the time) and she apparently disturbed her whole library block with it.

  18. 18.

    Yutsano

    @Tsukune: Nothin’ but urges from Hayull!!

    (Gawd I lurved that sequence. That man needs to keep drawing until time ends.)

  23. 23.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    Sorry if this has already been posted but this piece of the Obama puzzle has been brought to my attention.

    Not only Muslim with a Kenyan SS# but also a pirate! Too!

    B-arrrrgh-ack.

  26. 26.

    Tsulagi

    Want to double down on the cute? Someone sent me this vid of a merengue dancing girl dog. This dog dances latin better on two legs than a lot of humanoids.

  28. 28.

    Captain Goto

    “It’s natural and beautiful!! I, for one, fully support PENGUIN LUST ! ! ! ”

    “Fine. But this editorial was about ‘nun-beating’.”

    “Good lord, man…I can’t support THAT.”

    /Breathed

  38. 38.

    Anoniminous

    Between reading Yet Another blog post on the continuing series of the latest Tea-Bagging stupidity/disaster/racism/etc. or how Obama is/is not whatever …

    and seeing someone tickle a penguin …

    I’ll take the penguin.

  39. 39.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    When penguins get really hungry, they look at you and imagine that you are a can of tuna and then they attack.

    I know because I saw it in a cartoon.

  40. 40.

    New Yorker

    @Tsukune:

    I was wondering if the post title was a deliberate reference to Oral Bill’s crusade against penguin lust.

  41. 41.

    Sarah, Proud and Tall

    That’s exactly the noise that Ann Coulter makes when she orgasms.

    Go on, listen to it again with your eyes closed and try to get THAT visual out of your head.

    I’ll give you cute and fucking fluffy.

  42. 42.

    Comrade Mary

    Yeah, that is a bucket of squee, right there. I also suggest that “tickling the penguin” not just go into the lexicon, but that it becomes a tag, also, too, SQUEE!

    The full video. His name was Cookie, he was a showgirl.

  45. 45.

    Fe E

    @Yutsano:

    I know that is true for Antarctic Penguins–especially the Adelies they are just fearless out of the water. And very curious too and cute as all-get-out as well.

    I don’t know about African penguins though, they may have learned to be wary of onshore predators.

  48. 48.

    JustPeachyAndYou

    Cutest damn thing I’ve seen this week. The obgligate carnivore in my lap wanted to eat it.

  50. 50.

    twiffer

    hehe. already saw that, courtesy of TMBG. did not drive the kitten nuts, probably because she’s off napping somewhere else. or chasing a particularly wily pit of paper.

  51. 51.

    donnah

    My teenage son watched it again with me and said, “Well, now we have to get a penguin”.

    Teh squee is a good thing to have during these troubled times.

  64. 64.

    gastropoda

    I contend that penguin is not giggling but shrieking. Penguins were not designed to be tickled by humans for Youtube consumption. Sorry to be a downer.

  65. 65.

    flukebucket

    Sorry to see Balko no longer on the blogroll. I found Balko thru Balloon-Juice back in ’04 and I had hoped that one day he might be a front pager over here. But who knows. Hearts and minds are changing.

  67. 67.

    Waratah

    This made me doubly envious of my sister who in a couple of weeks will be in Melbourne going to the King Tut exhibition and seeing the fairy penguins.

  68. 68.

    Lysana

    Considering the penguin was actively going to get the pettings, had clearly sought them before based on the video commentary, and stayed put after it was over, I don’t think it was being tortured. @gastropoda:

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