Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Infrastructure week. at last.

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

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

T R E 4 5 O N

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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

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

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

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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

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

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

Tick tock motherfuckers!

We are aware of all internet traditions.

In my day, never was longer.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

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

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  1. 1.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Seeing as how this particular holiday was basically co-opted by the early church from the various holidays celebrating the solstice, one need not be a “Christian” or even a Christian to celebrate the sun’s change of heart about going south and away from us northern hemisphere dwellers and coming back our way, with the promise of soda, pretzels, beer, and plenty of sunshine even in places like Buffalo in only about five months.

  2. 2.

    Mnemosyne

    Niece and nephew have opened presents and are playing with their Pokemon treehouse. G is outside calling his family in Chicago and finding out why his niece ended up in the ER yesterday (which we found out via frickin’ Facebook). G got me a subtle nag to work on my movie blog for Xmas. So not a bad day so far.

  3. 3.

    BGinCHI

    Hey all you B-J jackals, happy holiday!

    I didn’t get a pony again this year, but it’s been a great holiday weekend with good weather and good friends and family.

    We’re expecting our baby (our first, gonna be a boy) on Thurs or Fri. Mrs. BG getting induced Wed night, even though I was supposed to go to the Alex Chilton Birthday bash Wed night at the Empty Bottle.

    Why do expecting mothers hate American Rock n Roll? So selfish.

  5. 5.

    gbear

    It’s just shy of 40 degrees in Mpls/StP with no snow on the ground so it doesn’t feel very christmasy. I’m not a fan of snow, but the lack of it seems to be a continuation of a bad drought that started last summer. I’m hoping that this isn’t going to be the ‘new normal’ for weather.

  8. 8.

    ruemara

    Merry Chrismawhatever! I woke up to my wow account hacked, my toons broke and mostly stripped, my gm toon and my co-gm toon shipped to various servers. The christmas gift of stress, I suppose. All is fixed but I hope the hackers get their butts kicked.

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    wrb

    My the sun once again regain his fortitude this year.

    During the winter, the sun is driven out of his usual course by the storms, and removes to the upper parts of LIBYA. This is the whole secret in the fewest possible words; for it stands to reason that the country to which the Sun-god approaches the nearest, and which he passes most directly over, will be scantest of water, and that there the streams which feed the rivers will shrink the most. To explain, however, more at length, the case is this. The sun, in his passage across the upper parts of LIBYA, affects them in the following way. As the air in those regions is constantly clear, and the country warm through the absence of cold winds, the sun in his passage across them acts upon them exactly as he wont to act elsewhere in summer, when his path is in the middle of heaven- that is, he attracts the water. After attracting it, he again repels it into the upper regions, where the winds lay hold of it, scatter it, and reduce it to a vapour, whence it naturally enough comes to pass that the winds which blow from this quarter- the south and south-west- are of all winds the most rainy. And my own opinion is that the sun does not get rid of all the water which he draws year by year from the Nile, but retains some about him. When the winter begins to soften, the sun goes back again to his old place in the middle of the heaven, and proceeds to attract water equally from all countries. Till then the other rivers run big, from the quantity of rain-water which they bring down from countries where so much moisture falls that all the land is cut into gullies; but in summer, when the showers fail, and the sun attracts their water, they become low. The Nile, on the contrary, not deriving any of its bulk from rains, and being in winter subject to the attraction of the sun, naturally runs at that season, unlike all other streams, with a less burthen of water than in the summer time. For in summer it is exposed to attraction equally with all other rivers, but in winter it suffers alone. The sun, therefore, I regard as the sole cause of the phenomenon. It is the sun also, in my opinion, which, by heating the space through which it passes, makes the air in Egypt so dry. There is thus perpetual summer in the upper parts of LIBYA. Were the position of the heavenly regions reversed, so that the place where now the north wind and the winter have their dwelling became the station of the south wind and of the noon-day, while, on the other hand, the station of the south wind became that of the north, the consequence would be that the sun, driven from the mid-heaven by the winter and the northern gales, would betake himself to the upper parts of Europe, as he now does to those of LIBYA, and then I believe his passage across Europe would affect the Ister exactly as the Nile is affected at the present day.

    wimp

  10. 10.

    Schlemizel

    @gbear:
    Just remember that it rained here nearly every damn day for the 4 months before the drought. We might still get 4 feet of snow!

  13. 13.

    4jkb4ia

    So I went to see “Hugo”, and it dispelled my “Bah, humbug” mood of earlier. It ties into Anne Laurie’s video because I wouldn’t go to the movies today if that wasn’t what my family always did when we were in town. (The best Christmas I ever had was when we were in New York for a wedding, and I was engaged. I and my not-yet-husband went to the Empire State Building, which is too touristy for my native New Yorker parents, and the Jewish Museum, and La Marais, and Jewsapalooza at the Knitting Factory. It was absolutely awe-inspiring that there were actual things to do. On a different day, we went on the Circle Line, a thing I had never done in almost 30 years of coming to New York.)

    If you get a chance, see “Hugo” before it is gone. It is a really good movie and the art direction should get an Oscar nomination if there is any justice.

    And Knicks 106, Celtics 104. But Shumpert hurt his knee and is out at least 2 weeks.

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