Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

No one could have predicted…

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

How stupid are these people?

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

American history and black history cannot be separated.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

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

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

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

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  4. 4.

    Yuppers

    I don’t understand. They’re a small (nano) brewery. There are literally hundreds of such breweries across the US, all worthy of our support as beer drinkers. Hell, there are dozens in my town alone.

    Why are we singling this particular one out for accolades?

  9. 9.

    Comrade Mary

    It asked me and I lied about my age, but my iPhone couldn’t download the file. What should have happened?

  11. 11.

    j

    I’ve had the Winter Solstice and the Green Tea Ale at a local tasting. Both were pretty good, and I bought a couple of 6 packs of the Winter Solstice.

    Does anyone know what version of that song is? I hear the “original” 9more popular and thus gets air play) and I still don’t know what the name is, or who does either version.

  14. 14.

    MikeJ

    @Yuppers: I tend to agree with you. I rarely drink anything imported from further away than Orygun. Why I would reward marketing people by getting stuff from the other side of the Rockies(+ another 1000 miles) is beyond me.

  18. 18.

    Freddie deBoer

    @MikeJ: I wasn’t actually saying everybody should buy something from them, you know. I just thought this was funny.

  19. 19.

    Samara Morgan

    so freddie….got that link for me yet?

    Then I pointed out that you are not, in fact, who you say you are, and you got mad, and now you are negatively obsessed.
    __
    (There wasn’t a gay girl in Damascus, either.)

    i just can’t find it anywhere, and i dont remember reading it.

  21. 21.

    Samara Morgan

    that isnt why i dislike you, you know….this is why i dislike you.

    “conflates true liberalism with support for the labor movement. But Ryan Avent doesn’t understand why Freddie has such love for unions”
    Hey TNC, Ryan.
    i can answer that.
    Because it worked for EDK…amirite Kay?
    Kain parleyed his BJ stint into a labour roundtable and the presidents ear.
    and then he recanted…. once he had locked down the paying gig.
    __
    EDK:Certainly teachers unions represent a major obstacle to reform of our education system.

  30. 30.

    NoPublic

    If you’re running NoScript (or equivalent browser settings) you won’t get the interstitial age popup.

  31. 31.

    Samara Morgan

    @Freddie deBoer: nice change from your usual formula post of attacking bloggers a lil’ higher up the food chain, or a 1000 words of firebagging and Obama concerntrolling.

    mistermix’s advice?

  38. 38.

    fordpowers

    that was teh awesome!

    i work on beer co websites all day long – and they’d never let us do something fun like that.
    no humor in advertising anymore.

  39. 39.

    Samara Morgan

    @Nerull: hmm…i wunner what your IP addr is….you dont look familiar.

    Dr. Scott: You don’t want to hurt anyone.
    Samara Morgan: But I do, and I’m sorry. It won’t stop.

  44. 44.

    trollhattan

    @Comrade Mary:

    It asked me and I lied about my age, but my iPhone couldn’t download the file. What should have happened?

    It might could be that whole Apple Don’t Do Flash business. Try again from a PC…if you dare!

  46. 46.

    Samara Morgan

    c’mon Cole…or DougJ can give me a timeout again.
    it wont stop until freddie the liar gives up the link.

    Is it okfine for front pagers to lie here?

    Cole wont even publish emails. But i guess outright whoppers is ok.

  47. 47.

    Samara Morgan

    are you mad freddie?
    its not just me.
    Hbin said it too, and TNC’s commenters.

    Hbin – August 9, 2011 | 11:53 pm · Link
    __
    Just saw Freddie being smacked down by TNC at his blog for attempting to play the “you’re not leftist/liberal enough” blame-game with TNC the way Freddie was goading Yglesias and Klein. Too bad TNC is smart enough not to indulge him – “you have your own blog”. Ooohhhh, burn!
    __
    Not to mention the humiliation of the commenters at TNC’s blog not knowing who Freddie de Boer is and calling him “faux liberal troll”. LOL, I guess Freddie’s tireless effort to increase his reputation by picking fights with more established liberal bloggers hasn’t work at all. Faux liberal troll indeed!

  48. 48.

    bodacious

    OK, that was fun. But I’m from the Portland OR area and a beer SNOB! I could never buy my beer from Inndianapolis ;-)

  49. 49.

    Ash Can

    @Freddie deBoer:

    Oh, I also finally have cleeks Balloon Juice pie filter going.

    Bravo!

    And this would be a dandy time to repost the link to the pie filter. Cleek? Anyone?

  51. 51.

    Samara Morgan

    C’mon Cole.
    you know you want to.
    permaban!

    then you can enjoy your glibertarian rentboi kumbayah c1rcle jerks in peace and safety.

  55. 55.

    Samara Morgan

    c’mon cleek.
    more people need to be shielded from the fact that freddie is a big fat liar and a creepy blogverse social climber.

  58. 58.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Samara Morgan: You have made your point. Multiple times. Protip: the gay blogger in Damascus is not you. Freddie wasn’t referring to you with the reference.

    I, in the past, have made allowances for m_c’s actions because she is an Aspie. I have, however, run across enough other Aspies to realize that m_c is an ass who happens to also, and unrelatedly, be an Aspie.

  60. 60.

    Samara Morgan

    sheesh what a coward.

    like i said, the unifying principle of libertarians, whether they call themselves neoliberals, liberaltarians, civil libertarians, classic liberals, or libertarians, is that they allus run.

    they never stand and deliver.

  61. 61.

    Elliott

    PDX is a serious beer town. Every dive bar has a recently-cleaned tap pouring fresh local beer. Seriously, back in the day, at a dive on MLK south of Hawthorne and north of Division, after drinking fresh Mirror Pond Pale Ales until close, I got a 64-ounce Schlitz in a plastic cup in a to-go cup to take to a warehouse party for NxNW volunteers.

  62. 62.

    Samara Morgan

    @Omnes Omnibus: orly?

    please interpret then.

    Then I pointed out that you are not, in fact, who you say you are, and you got mad, and now you are negatively obsessed.
    __
    (There wasn’t a gay girl in Damascus, either.)

    it must be the aspergers but i read that as either i am not a girl or not a muslim.
    you have a different interpretation?

  66. 66.

    Ash Can

    @Scott: OMG, that link is hilarious! Although it gives me the slightly creepy feeling that if either of those morons actually got their hands on some weaponry some day, the results wouldn’t be at all pretty.

  67. 67.

    Samara Morgan

    @Omnes Omnibus: and not to mention, i never saw anything like freddie describes….so how could that make me mad at him?
    hes another glibertarian shithead on the frontpage.
    that is what i have against him.
    Kain is a neoliberal now too….its just another codeword for glibertarian.

    glibertarian: may style themself a neoliberal, liberaltarian, classic liberal, civil libertarian, but really just means a second tier blogger that expects to be paid for pageclicks someday.

    so he can just just manup and give the link, or apolo for lying to you fine people.

  68. 68.

    Gravenstone

    Yowza! Who yanked m_c’s chain? On the plus side though, I learned the pie filter now does graphics too.

  69. 69.

    Samara Morgan

    @Omnes Omnibus: dude…..it was to do with me.
    you are a retard.
    even Bella that hates me got that. it was part of the same comment and addr’d to me.
    :)

    haha, but okfine. Freddie can say that had nothing to me. i’ll accept that.
    and he can also apolo for lying.

  70. 70.

    Samara Morgan

    @Gravenstone:

    Then I pointed out that you are not, in fact, who you say you are, and you got mad, and now you are negatively obsessed.
    __
    (There wasn’t a gay girl in Damascus, either.)

    i just want freddie to give me the link where he “pointed out that you are not, in fact, who you say you are”.
    is that too much to ask?

  76. 76.

    Samara Morgan

    /yawn, well…..when freddie comes back, i’ll be back.

    unless someone bans me in the meantime.
    do you suppose freddie is pleading with Cole to ban me like Kain usta?

  79. 79.

    aimai

    Could someone please ban matoko? I’d pie her but its too complicated and this is like watching a monkey masturbate through a one way mirror. I’m just not that interested in her and as far as I can see no one is. Just ban her and her little pseudonyms too. She’s a mental train wreck and this isn’t helping her.

    aimai

  80. 80.

    Scott

    @Ash Can:

    Although it gives me the slightly creepy feeling that if either of those morons actually got their hands on some weaponry some day, the results wouldn’t be at all pretty.

    My general assumption with Mall Ninjas is that they can be divided into (a) dorks who talk smack on the internet but don’t actually own guns, (b) dorks who own guns, but only use them as props for their sexy boudoir photography they post on Hannidate, (c) dorks who injure themselves trying to shoot extremely large guns sideways to impress other dorks, and (d) dead dorks.

  81. 81.

    Amir Khalid

    @Scott:
    Reading the mall ninja link, I found myself reminded of a minor Marvel Comics “hero”, probably the gun-freakiest one in their line-up. Maybe, deep down inside, these mall ninja types secretly identify with The Punisher.

  83. 83.

    Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water

    For the love of FSM, please ban her already. In a way, it will make her happy – she will take it as vindication for her various obsessions

  84. 84.

    Catsy

    When reading m-chan’s obsessive stream-of-consciousness word salad, is anyone else reminded of the internet posts by Jared Loughner that got dug up after that incident?

  85. 85.

    Amir Khalid

    @aimai:
    I hear ya. Really I do. But have to admit, I’m kinda sorta ambivalent about banning her. Her habit of pestering front-pagers and fellow commenters for attention is incredibly tiresome. But on a good day (I admit they’re rare), she can add something of value to the conversation, and I’d not be keen to lose that.

    Besides, I get an amazing amount of sympathy from fellow Balloon Juice commenters when she picks on me, and I’m not keen to lose that either. ;-)

  87. 87.

    freelancer

    @Catsy:

    When reading m-chan’s obsessive stream-of-consciousness word salad, is anyone else reminded of the internet posts by Jared Loughner that got dug up after that incident?

    Yes. It may be harsh, but reading his word salad after the fact was remarkably similar in tone and in infatuation with nonsensical topics/details, not to mention puzzling in the same fashion. I’m not saying MC, SM etc is going to shoot or harm anyone, but she could stand to benefit from professional help.

  88. 88.

    Sentient Puddle

    I think we should actually talk about beer in this thread.

    I’m about to start all-grain brewing. With it, I’m also planning on diving into the deep end of making my own recipes, as up until now, I’ve only done recipes provided by the local homebrew shop. Any other homebrewers around that know a thing or two about calculating efficiency? I sort of feel like what I’ve read about it is giving me some incomplete knowledge.

  89. 89.

    cckids

    @freelancer:

    but she could stand to benefit from professional help.

    I concur. At the least, someone should write her a picture book a la “Go the F#@K to Sleep”. Could work.

  94. 94.

    TheStone

    Very happy to see Beast-Man, Skeletor, Man-at-arms, et al find gainful employment in this economic environment. All the same, having just taken the bar, I cannot endorse any enterprise going under the moniker of BlackAcre.

  95. 95.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @TheStone: Would you feel any better if a life estate in WhiteAcre with a reversion subject to a condition subsequent were granted. Is there a perpetuities problem? Sorry, I feel you pain although it has been years (5 and 15) since I was in your shoes. I recommend going drinking; it’s what I did.

  97. 97.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    another mini-micro, that sells overpriced overhyped, poorly made beer by jacking up the alcohol content to hide the lack of other merits while maintaining the faddish ethos.

    someday, when its safe for the devout trendlies to disavow their prior held convictions and piety, we are going to look back on this and it will all seem funny.

  98. 98.

    ton

    please , please make the troll go back under the bridge.

    [nicest thing I can think of to say]

    BTW, hate that song, but love that video -genius!

  99. 99.

    Ceiling Jesus is Watching You

    This brought back horrible memories of taking the Filmation “test” for animators in the ’80’s. They gave you a raft of He-Man key drawings that you had to in-between– and unless you had no idea how animation “works,” you’d pass it. Sort of explains He-Man’s basic “look”, don’t it? I asked one of the animation grunts working there “what’s the deal with this “test?” He rolled his eyes, and said “Forget the test. If you have two hands and can run a xerox machine, they’ll probably hire you.”

  100. 100.

    Ron

    Am I missing something about the site? It’s some local brewery which is brewing beer but isn’t open for business yet. The website doesn’t seem particularly awful to me. Maybe I’m missing something.

  107. 107.

    BD of MN

    @SentientPuddle:

    Any other homebrewers around that know a thing or two about calculating efficiency? I sort of feel like what I’ve read about it is giving me some incomplete knowledge.

    get some software. I’ve been using ProMash for 7 or so years and love it, although I can’t get it to run on my new Win7-64 laptop.

    if you want to calculate it by hand, here’s an example to walk you through it. Let’s say you’re using a Pilsner malt that has a potential starting gravity (SG) of 1.037. For a five gallon batch, five pounds of malt at 100% efficiency would give you a SG of that same 1.037… since nobody can actually get 100%, you have to adjust that downwards. Let’s take 75% efficiency as a starting point, so multiply 37 by 0.75, which gives you 28, or a 1.028 potential SG…

    to work it backwards, let’s say your style calls for a SG of 1.050: 50 gravity points divided by your 0.75 efficiency is 66.7 potential gravity points, times your five gallons is 333, divided by your grain potential gravity points (37), means you need 9 pounds of grain…

    clear as mud?

  108. 108.

    Mo MacArbie

    @Sentient Puddle Efficiency is what you get after you’ve made the beer and you see how you’ve done. You have to kind of wing it at first until you get a track record on your own individual setup. 67% was the assumed efficiency to plug in until I knew better.

  110. 110.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    @Mike Lamb:

    there seems to be a ton of them, any trip to a beer store will yield a ton of 40 dollar plus per case, over alcohol, small batch with odd and provocative sounding beer companies, and brands. it seems like all the hipster beer places are loaded with the inventory.

    its beer, its supposed to be low %alc, if you want something stronger step into some wine or liquor. i hate it that beer got pretentions.

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