Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

This blog will pay for itself.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

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

“woke” is the new caravan.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

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  2. 2.

    Southern Beale

    And the war on women continues:

    Idaho Woman Arrested and Charged with ‘Unlawful Abortion’
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    Unable to afford the doctors visits and medical bills associated with an actual medical abortion, Jennie L. McCormack of Idaho instead had her sister purchase drugs online to ingest in order to cause a miscarriage. McCormack, who is the mother of three, is now being charged with “unlawful abortion” according to the Associated Press.
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    If McCormack is found guilty, she could be subject to a $5000 penalty as well as up to five years in prison.

  7. 7.

    beltane

    @Southern Beale: Expect to see more of this in the near future. I’m sure the family values crowd will demand the death penalty for this poor woman and for her three children to be sold to human traffickers because that’s the type of people they are.

  8. 8.

    srv

    I’ll dollar match any contributions after my comment up to $250. Put your contribution amount down.

  14. 14.

    hilts

    Doug,

    Isn’t it time to create a Mark Halperin award for the most breathtakingly stupid commentary on politics?

    Halperin’s gems from yesterday’s Last Word

    And she [Palin] quit the governorship — I’m not here as an apologist for her — under the laws of the state her family was going to be bankrupt by litigation and public records requests. She wasn’t interested in doing that. I’m not saying that’s a positive for her, but I don’t think it’s a reflection of her ambition, her level of ambition or her interest in public service.

    I think he’s [Trump] much more serious about running before than you do. He spent a fair amount of time about talking to people working for his campaign. I don’t know why he would have gone through hours and hours of meetings if it were all just a charade.

    h/t http://www.salon.com/news/politics/sarah_palin/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/06/02/halperin_trump_what

  15. 15.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @Southern Beale: It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Portugal had banned abortion, up until the point women started actually getting threatened to be sent to jail for the abortions. The ban ended pretty quickly after that.

  16. 16.

    Warren Terra

    @srv:

    I’ll dollar match any contributions after my comment up to $250. Put your contribution amount down.

    $68 (plus a 5% tip to ActBlue). No numerological reason for the odd number, except that it divided into eighths fairly cleanly.

    PS if the Republicans get their 3 recall petitions approved for the ballot, I assume those three Democrats will be added?

  18. 18.

    Southern Beale

    Here’s my blog post on it: Those Sluts Must Be Punished.

    The thing that gets me is that this just proves what we’ve been saying all along: putting up roadblocks to abortion — even making it illegal — won’t stop it from happening! It just pushes women into to doing desperate, unsafe things. Instead of making abortion so impossible to access that a woman has to treat herself, possibly permanenly injuring or killing herself and leaving three kids without a parent, isn’t it just better to have a doctor do the procedure?

    I’m sorry. There I go again, making sense to people who have zero interest in reason or logic. Sorry. I don’t know what I was thinking.

  19. 19.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    $100+10%. Looks like I’m too late for the match, but thanks. :-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  21. 21.

    hilts

    @beltane:

    The last word in stupid

    By this time next week, Palin will have made half a dozen statements that are far stupider than the one you cited. She’s the bottomless pit of stupid. Watching her talk is like watching an endless loop of someone slipping on a banana peel.

  22. 22.

    srv

    Done:

    Dave Hansen — $31.25
    Jessica King — $31.25
    Jim Holperin — $31.25
    Bob Wirch — $31.25
    ActBlue Technical Services Tips — $10.00
    Fred Clark — $31.25
    Shelly Moore — $31.25
    Sandy Pasch — $31.25
    Nancy Nusbaum — $31.25
    Total: $260.00

  24. 24.

    tim serbo

    jayzus t. bieber on a cracker, you are worse than npr during beg week(s). fine, there go $25 i can’t afford, but better them than BofA, Citi, and Chase, n’est-ce pas?

    pets are the only antidepressant worth a damn. my mother died jan. 2009, i had a myocardial infarction 12/22/10, my sister died in april, the country is going mad and the ice caps are melting, and though i’m sad as hell, duh, i’m not depressed. it’s gotta be the bunny (center of the dec. 2011 page of your BJ calendar, surveying his domain from the vantage of a guitar case). i hope you’re enjoying weather as supernal as that we’re blessed with in gotham this weekend. fair winds and following tides upon you all.

  25. 25.

    Poopyman

    Thanks, srv!

    The numbers keep going up, but the thermometer just sits there. Musta lost its mercury.

  26. 26.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    @srv: That’s not the real names of all those people who just kicked in, is it?

  28. 28.

    Martin

    Just a reminder that not all states are self-destructing under teatard rule:

    The Assembly passed one of the year’s most controversial and intensively lobbied bills Thursday — imposing rate regulation on health insurers — after Republicans walked out of the chamber in protest.

    Keep fighting the good fight WI.

  31. 31.

    Evolved Deep Southerner

    Duh. Shows how much I’ve been paying attention. Y’all keep up the good work and don’t mind me.

  36. 36.

    Doug Harlan J

    Thanks everybody! $2500 today, not a bad haul!

    These elections are important and I’ll be blegging a lot.

  37. 37.

    Spaghetti Lee

    I’m not a cheap bastard, I’m a penniless bastard. I’m home from college and living with my folks, but cannot find a summer job to save my life, and the amounts I’m seeing some people donate amount to close to 20% of my life savings. Wish I could do more. I might kick in a $10 or $20 closer to election day. Hopefully I’ll have a job by then.

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