Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

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

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

T R E 4 5 O N

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

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

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

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

Let’s finish the job.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

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  1. 1.

    Sad Iron

    My gosh, when I saw the still frame my first words were, “The Smashing Pumpkins sent in a reader video to Balloon Juice?”

  4. 4.

    Dee Loralei

    That was cute, loved the nicknames for Tinkerbell. So which reader was it? And lol I want some dust!

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    Brian S

    Still steamed about the Aston Villa match this morning. If you’re going to pull a red card on someone in the first half, there damn well better have been a foul that even the people in the cheap seats could see, because you’ve just changed the match irrevocably. it’s questionable whether there was a foul at all on that play, much less a red card worthy offense.

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    Cassidy

    Just spent the last week calling people to coerce them into paying money they don’t have on stuff they probably shouldn’t have been sold in the first place. I try to tell myself that it’s a paycheck and pays the bills (almost). I also try to tell myself that these people should have known better. But the worst is when I see something like a washer and dryer; something someone clearly needs.

    I’m really starting to be ashamed of living in this country.

  10. 10.

    Brian S

    @Cassidy:

    they probably shouldn’t have been sold in the first place.

    I got into a Twitter fight (happens less often than you might think) earlier this week with a douche who refused to acknowledge that maybe the banks had some responsibility in the financial collapse. He acted as though the fact that someone asked for a mortgage meant the bank was obligated to give it to them, even if it knew the borrower was unlikely to be able to pay it back. Drove me nuts.

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    gogol's wife

    @WereBear:

    Do you have any tips on getting semi-socialized ferals to the vet? Ours are so sweet and loving until we try to get them into the carrier, and then they turn into stiletto-wielding punks who leave us bloody. With the male (who is very fat, despite being on Innova for over a year now), we actually have had to sedate him. But getting the sedative into him is also a challenge.

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    Steeplejack

    @gogol’s wife:

    You might get some help at my friend’s blog “The Ferals.” She and her husband have done wonders working with a small colony of feral cats in the woods behind their house. They got all the kittens neutered, and just recently they finally caught and fixed the elusive mama cat. If you left her a message, I’m sure she would respond in detail.

    Plus she has great pictures and videos of the cats.

    ETA: Check this video from her site.

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    WereBear (itouch)

    @gogol’s wife: What kind if sedative is it? One trick is to mix it with butter or coconut oil and smush it into the fur of their foreleg. So you are not wrestling with them quite so much.

    I put the carrier on its end and lower themin hind legs first. They get their feet on the floor and I close the door.

    They are never going to like it. I figure sedating them first keeps them from freaking out so much.

    And… If they have a song with their name in it, get them used to it and then when you sing it in the car, it helps them.

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    gogol's wife

    @WereBear (itouch):

    It’s a pill the vet gave us, I can’t remember the name. I tried smashing it up and putting it in food, but he doesn’t always eat the whole thing.
    Strangely enough, once they’re in the carrier they calm down, and especially at the vet’s, they are completely quiet. It’s just getting them in there. Louis is too fat to lower in hind legs first. I guess sedative is the only way. I keep hoping there’s some easier solution. Thanks!

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    Paul in KY

    @gogol’s wife: My sister will take one of her cats that is sorta like that & wrap it completely up in a towel. She then chucks said towel/cat into the carrier & by the time the cat gets out of the towel, it is trapped.

    Is not happy when it gets to the vet, though.

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