Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Everybody saw this coming.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

People are complicated. Love is not.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Second rate reporter says what?

After roe, women are no longer free.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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

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

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  3. 3.

    Yutsano

    Am I wrong in thinking there should have been a “To Be Continued” at the end there?

  9. 9.

    Martin

    Best old white jewish hip hop group, by far. And nice job getting Ferrell on the cowbell.

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    Uncle Clarence Thomas

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    Hey, I was waiting for the live musical performance to President Obama at today’s presidential fundraiser in San Francisco. Please post that vid when you get it.
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  18. 18.

    McKnuckles

    Orlando Bloom as the squegee man and Dwight from the office being sprayed. Lots of hidden references to old songs done by the group.

  19. 19.

    McKnuckles

    Orlando Bloom as the squegee man and Dwight from the office being sprayed. Lots of hidden references to old songs done by the group.

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    Kidhill

    I’m still not sure who it is that gets out of the DeLorean at the end. It looks like Jack Black, Will Ferrell, and…? Not sure who the other guy is.

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    MikeJ

    @Just Some Fuckhead: They do like it when you kill mercenaries the government is using to kill them though. And why are remotely piloted aircraft worse than planes with the pilots in them? We’ve already attacked Libya with aircraft. This is just more of the same.

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    stuckinred

    Bohdissatva Vow

    I grew up with skateboarding, snowboarding and with the music of Beastie Boys, one of the greatest hip hop (and punk) bands. One of their members Adam “MCA” Yauch (right dude on a picture above) is a Buddhist and here’s some lyrics from a song called Bodhisattva Vow (from an album Ill Communication [1994]):

    As I Develop The Awakening Mind I Praise The Buddha As They Shine
    I Bow Before You As I Travel My Path To Join Your Ranks,
    I Make My Full Time Task
    For The Sake Of All Beings I Seek

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    Yutsano

    @stuckinred: I bet he’s still a good Jewish boy that doesn’t eat shrimp and calls his mother every weekend. Some habits die really really hard.

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    stuckinred

    @Yutsano: Since paths are many and truth is one, what the fuck, why not. When the monks came here to do their sand mandala they were mad for Burger King!

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    AAA Bonds

    @MikeJ:

    I agree that this is exactly as bad as what we’re doing in Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq . . .

    However, the symbolic aspect of Predator drones is real. They’re an extremely effective anti-American recruiting tool, paid for by you and me.

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    stuckinred

    @AAA Bonds: Here, bitch about this:

    WASHINGTON — A provision in the new 9/11 health bill may be adding insult to injury for people who fell sick after their service in the aftermath of the 2001 Al Qaeda attacks, The Huffington Post has learned.

    The tens of thousands of cops, firefighters, construction workers and others who survived the worst terrorist assault in U.S. history and risked their lives in its wake will soon be informed that their names must be run through the FBI’s terrorism watch list, according to a letter obtained by HuffPost.

  38. 38.

    MonkeyBoy

    hitfix:

    … About a dozen prominent actors from Will Arnett, Steve Buscemi, Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson, Jack Black, Will Farrell and Orlando Bloom show up in the clip, with Elijah Wood, Jonah HIll and Danny McBride starring as the trio,
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    Tag along with the fellows as they crash into a bodega, get hit by cars, take drugs in a limo, piss-off restaurant patrons and face-off their later-life rivals: themselves (as Jack Black, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly).

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    AAA Bonds

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    We’re never going to win in 2012 with certain people in our ranks working so hard to divide Democrats over our foreign policy.

    The tough part is: they hang out at the White House.

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    John - A Motley Moose

    @Kidhill: Will Ferrel, Jack Black, and John C. Reilly.

    Here’s a list from MTV of the cameos.

    The “Make Some Noise” video features a steady stream of star spottings, with a stream of cameos by some of our favorite TV and movie actors, including Will Arnett, Orlando Bloom, Steve Buscemi, David Cross, Ted Danson, Kirsten Dunst, Will Ferrell, Rashida Jones, Amy Poehler, Jason Schwartzman, Chloe Sevigny, Mary Steenburgen and Rainn Wilson. And yes, that’s Susan Sarandon. Dudes have the hottest cell phone contact list in the game right now.

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    AAA Bonds

    @stuckinred:

    Sounds shitty, maybe even shittier than Arianna Huffington always was and shall be.

    I’ve done some work for the ACLU concerning that watchlist. It’s mutated into a gigantic rampaging monster and there’s very little that anyone is willing to do about it.

    http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/watch-lists

    Did you know that there were 414 incidents of suspected al-Qaeda members tangling with Virginia law enforcement in 2009 alone? Or at least that’s what the watch list got people to report . . .

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    AAA Bonds

    @stuckinred:

    Split what? Where? When?

    A robust anti-interventionist Republican primary candidate? An influential anti-war Republican Congressional faction? Will Republicans be so disheartened by what Obama’s doing that they will stay home in 2012 rather than trying to vote him out? Or will his strong interventionism using robot planes and 500-pound bombs rally all those ready-made “Obama Republicans” behind him?

    Only time will tell, I guess.

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    Mark D

    Oh. Hell. Yes.

    Oh, and I’m guessing someone has either posted (sorry — in a hurry), or everyone here is already familiar with, the Beastles by dj BC (who does amazing mash-ups)?

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    Jamey

    Objectively, a great song–stands up there with their best, even if it doesn’t reflect a career’s worth of “musical growth.”

    Don’t get me started on why Paul’s Boutique is the greatest Rock and Roll record of all time…

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    sidereal

    @Yutsano

    None of them. That’s Seth Rogen, Kenny Powers, and Frodo. Not the actual Beasties.

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    Yutsano

    @sidereal: Sheesh you humans are so literal sometimes. :)

    @asiangrrlMN: Hi hon. I was a touch disappointed at the liberal application of AutoTune, but that’s dragging out an old argument of mine that I’d rather not get into at this juncture.

    Took a mental health day. If I didn’t I was gonna scream and prolly just quit. And it had nothing to do with my employer or my bosses.

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    Jebediah

    @Uncle Clarence Thomas:

    Hey, I was waiting for the live musical performance to President Obama at today’s presidential fundraiser in San Francisco. Please post that vid when you get it.

    He was in San Francisco today? Dude gets around – he was in Culver City, on the Sony lot, this afternoon, for a fundraiser. My little Culver City is so Mayberry that we barely had to be locked down/Secret Serviced/black helicoptered at all.

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    mattH

    This is the one post on Balloon Juice where everyone loves Michael D.

    My god (better mine than yours). Even I’m not that pathetic.

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