There was so much offensive shit in that last open thread I took the unprecedented step of just deleting the whole god damned thing turning off the comments. I am really sick of some of you people. And I don’t just mean the trolls, I mean the people who simply can not control themselves and feed the trolls. In fact, you are almost worse. If someone says something offensive to the point you think it is worth calling them a pedophile or c-bomb, STOP BEFORE YOU COMMENT and move on.
Christ on a crutch. I feel like I am on a playground, and I don’t know what is more annoying- the troublemakers, the self-anointed hall monitors, or the people who have decided it is their job to personally take on the trolls with multiple posts calling them out, because they are some Luke Skywalker hero shit. I just want to punch every god damned one of you in the neck.
This is the fucking internet. People say offensive shit. Most of us cope and move on. For some reason, some of you need to stir shit up, and some of you simply can not stop help yourself from responding. You guys are the fucking problem, not the rest of us.
And why do I have to do this every three fucking months? Stop being douche bags. Fuckers.
kwAwk
Now that was funny.
different-church-lady
Freak… all that good stuff about Calvados, gone forever.
Mnemosyne
Can we try out Felonius Wench’s suggestion of troll-free and troll-allowed posts?
MikeJ
I thought calling the troll a paedo was funny.
Alison
Seconded, and thank you.
eemom
yay! Cole’s pissed again!
Kola Noscopy
What a breath of fresh air.
Arclite
Whatever John’s drinking, I want some.
Odie Hugh Manatee
John iz bored and trolling hiz own blog again. ;) Put a pic of you up doing the exact same thing as Obama and it’s a deal.
You can change the caption to read: “I’m gonna punch you fuckers in the NECK!” if you wish to.
RW in Fla
http://www.benningtonvalepress.com/2011/12/correction-to-story-on-dangerous.html
Ran across this correction via Google News, had to share it…
The story was meant to cover both Santorum’s surge in the Iowa polls and the threat of the sinkhole to Allentown residents. Unfortunately, the information came across as: “A giant stinkhole in Pennsylvania evacuated a surge of Santorum Thursday, putting over 20,000 veterans in their graves.” Some of the confusion stemmed from conflicting interpretations of Santorum and a related article we published yesterday.
amk
Funny obama tweet on that birther son of willard
And the ‘mug’ shot
fubar
Shorter John Cole…”A plague a’ both your houses! I am sped.”
SIA
Blogus Interuptus.
Yutsano
@amk: That whole situation has been giving me giggles all day. Anyone else wanna bet Willard’s five spawn will suddenly become “unavailable”?
@Steeplejack: He still owes me bread too. Fortunately the Gaguin exhibition hits SAM next month.
Steeplejack
@MikeJ:
Don’t start up again, mister!
The Dangerman
Fuck me; my Magnum Opus was in that thread! And now I’ve sobered up (which is just so wrong on the annual anniversary of my arrival on this rock) and it can’t be reproduced.
Oh, well, that, wrapped in the wrath of the Big Man, is a fitting end to 2011 (rot in hell, Year).
(clears throat; you are forewarned)
HB to me;
HB to me;
HB Dear Dangerman…
…and, can I just say, having a birthday so close to Christmas and at a time guaranteed to be when schools out, was a dirty trick (but a hell of a tax deduction).
DFS
Aw man I am bummed I missed the calvados posts. Maybe some other time.
Also, dunno if this is old news, but the blogroll link to Greg Sargent is busted somehow.
amk
btw, I’m stealing that pic, cole.
And yeah, fuck you too.
Jewish Steel
Let me guess. Veritas?
MikeJ
@Steeplejack: Pædophile.
Mnemosyne
Though I am a little sad our mini-liveblog of Tootsie is gone forever.
different-church-lady
@Yutsano:
I’m just gonna keep fixin’ ’em as fast as you people can break ’em.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
Wow, a taxonomy of trolls, flamers and general message-board assholes? Who knew? Thanks for the link!
SIA
@Yutsano: Nonsense! They’re serving their country
different-church-lady
@Jewish Steel: Strangely, no.
eemom
hmmf. On second thought, now that you’ve deleted the whole thread, posterity will never know that I of all people was the peacemaker. Fuck that shit.
Blessed art I.
MikeJ
@Mnemosyne:
Holy shit, didja see what comes on at 9:30. He’s a complicated man, no one understands him but his woman….
John O
Happy New Year, everyone.
PaulW
…all I did was say Happy New Year to you mofos…
If I offend, all apologies.
Jewish Steel
@MikeJ: Ligature’s illegal in this here county, son.
PeakVT
This is the fucking internet. People say offensive shit.
Really!? On da internet!?
aimai
Sorry I missed it. Anyone got a screen shot?
aimai
eemom
@Mnemosyne:
Yeah. A COMPETENT blogger would have deleted the evil comments and left the good ones.
Elizabelle
@Mnemosyne:
Actually, I still had a screen with up to about 90 comments on it, and made a PDF. Tootsie is saved, as is Calvados.
Steeplejack
@MikeJ:
Shut yo’ mouth. We can dig it.
SIA
@eemom: You were. I’m a witness, and will testify.
JGabriel
You guys had a flame war without me? {Wounded expression, crestfallen even.}
Fuckin’ peds, alla ya.
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piratedan
christ in a sidecar, you’d think that it’s HIS blog or sumthin’…. wait a minute….
jl
Everyone calm down. It was really my implication that Cole had garden gnomes. I didn’t even add my spidey sense intuition that they had cute little pixie type caps that he painted up like Santa hats every Holiday season.
My bad. I am sorry.
I don’t care about the trolls of the self appointed hall monitors. They got what they deserve.
But, what about the comments created with great effort by the drunks, and the booze comments? Is not deleting those a violation of some sacred Balloon Juice code of ethics.
For shame, Cole.
@Elizabelle: Thanks. I missed your comment. What kind of booze blog is this if Calvados comments get deleted?
amk
Here John, watch this cute kid.
Now go to your room and finish that drink.
different-church-lady
@Elizabelle:
Sounds like something you’d see on Univision.
J. Michael Neal
Sigh. Does anyone have a suggestion for an alternative to all of the major anti-virus/internet security suites? I’m currently using Kaspersky, and it’s worse than a virus. It routinely consumes more than 50% of the CPU capacity on my laptop, making the thing almost useless. I have to find something that is less of a system hog.
ulee
Cole is cycling. Every three months we go through this.
different-church-lady
@piratedan: Speaking of sidecars, I made one with Metaxa seven star once. A brilliant variation.
Yutsano
@SIA: Oh yeah. Kinda like what Dad did in Paris. They get nice mansions to hang out in too I bet.
@different-church-lady: I am amenable to any appropriate adjustments. Locking down the Taitz vote is rather important to Willard.
Kola Noscopy
@eemom:
You did try. I saw that.
amk
@J. Michael Neal: I have ditched all the paid av bloatware and have been using the free microsoft security essentials along with Ccleaner & Spybot – Search and Destroy for 3 years now. Zero problem.
different-church-lady
@J. Michael Neal: It has three letters, starts with the phrase “Get a…” and people who say it compulsively are insufferable. So I ain’t gonna do it.
Jewish Steel
@J. Michael Neal: Yeah, Immunet via Chrome. It’s boss.
AxelFoley
Damn, I missed all the falme?
And Cole, take your old ass to sleep. Kicking troll arse is good entertainment around these parts.
jl
@Kola Noscopy: My understanding is that promiscuous peacemaking IS against the BJ code.
Edit: just a thought, given Cole’s moods and periodic emotional instability, is it really a good idea for him to be reading whole BJ comment threads?
Mnemosyne
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:
I think I most often play the role of Artful Dodger.
Wannabe Speechwriter
Looks like some of you guys won’t be getting a complimentary Balloon Juice Pet Calendar for 2012 from John any time soon…
taylormattd
Goddamnit. What’d I miss? Fuckin A. I would have beem right there feeding. Someone give me cliff’s notes.
piratedan
@different-church-lady: and his name was Jesus, correct?
PeakVT
@J. Michael Neal: Try Clamwin and Malwarebytes for virus and malware protection. But if you run FF and are cautious about what you click, you probably don’t need to run one continuously – provided you’ve ratcheted up your computer’s firewall to the max.
Daniel Thomas MacInnes
I have to admit, John’s meltdowns over comment threads are always hilarious to me. It’s one of my favorite things about this site. I know it’s stressful to deal with the occasional trollface war, but it really is fantastic comedy. Please don’t change a thing.
Seriously, though, this is one of my favorite political blogs, so thanks and Happy Holidays to John and the pets and everyone else for all the hard work and dedication.
Steeplejack
@J. Michael Neal:
I use Avira AntiVir Personal, which is free. It does auto-update itself every day or two and show you a come-on screen for a paid version, but it is noninvasive, doesn’t seem to use a lot of resources and has worked for me.
Although occasionally I do consider going the route that amk has. Maybe when I move up to Windows 7. Right now I’m still on XP.
different-church-lady
You know what I’m going to do that’s going to make everything better?
I’m going to listen to Goon Show Radio.
MikeInSewickley
John,
Don’t take the time to screen these things IMHO.
Every political blogger seems to blow a fuse as people feed the trolls. I ignore them and post what I hope is relevant to topic or seems to follow the main ideas in an open thread.
If people think saying stuff that’s lower than whale shit is productive, then folks who have made good comments should warn everyone to stop feeding the trolls or everybody loses. Not foolproof but easier than full-time hall monitors.
We have only ourselves to blame if we let it happen. And that’s enough suck-up from me tonight.
The Dangerman
Well, fuck me again; now the thread is back and my Magnum Opus was only some drunken fantasy inspired by a Magnum?
Seriously, 2011, you were such a disappointment (considering 2012 is supposed to be, ya know, the year to end all years per the Mayans, 2011 had a chance to be great, but, nooooooooo).
moderateindy
I’m sorry but it is just plain cruel to declare a thread totally unacceptable and then delete so that others can’t participate in the fun. At least leave it up and shut down comments.
Also Cole, do you get any sense of irony from the fact that you told everyone to get over the fact that there are a lot of assholes on the internet who say offensive shit, but you took down an entire thread because you felt there were too many assholes on it saying offensive shit?
Just wondering
jl
Oh Lord help me. I made a joke about garden gnomes, and then looked at the Wiki article, because I half remembered that most garden gnomes have read pixie hats anyway.
Now, every single ad on the blog page is for garden gnomes. Seriously. Nothing but ads for garden gnomes, with the ever present Tunch watching over it all.
A ghastly sight.
Edit: but, maybe a new Ron Paul ad campaign. Hard to tell.
piratedan
@different-church-lady: that is an excellent call… I may have to sit down with some mst3k myself or break out the old Python disks…
Martin
Fucking internet, how does it work?!
Does anyone else here get the sense that Cole is publishing a series of journal papers on trolling and flamewars and using us as subject material?
Cathie from Canada
@jl: Big Brother really is watching and he wants to sell you something.
FlipYrWhig
I’m looking forward to the next front page post, where another front pager talks about how the obvious, obnoxious troll was actually the victim of a McCarthyite purge, which is the _real_ thing ruining the blog.
Yutsano
@The Dangerman: Dammit. Are you gonna make me look again? You’re gonna make me look again.
kwAwk
@moderateindy:
I think Cole’s point is that it’s okay to have fights with trolls, but what isn’t okay is to repeatedly throw a slur at someone ad nauseum.
Yutsano was being fairly childish in that regard.
MikeJ
@Martin: No, emacs is the only editor worth using.
burnspbesq
Apparently I picked a good day to be too busy to hang out.
Florida State, alleged to be the fourth-best team in the ACC, is 0-2 against the Ivy League.
C’mon, Noles. There’s no shame in losing to Harvard on a neutral floor. Harvard is legitimately good. But Princeton? At home? In triple overtime, which means you had four chances to put them away?
It is to laugh.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Daniel Thomas MacInnes:
What I think is hilarious is that John puts up a thread about trolls and what happens?
Near total troll warzone.
So now all he has to do is let it flame out, delete it and then put up another thread yelling at everyone to get off his lawn.
Pure genius. Now that’s how you set a trap.
burnspbesq
@different-church-lady:
Oh, that is so not true. I may be insufferable on other subjects, but not that one.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Couldn’t edit comment, FYWP!
Now John has replaced the original post? Fucking genius!
John, are you DougJ?
Brian S
Seriously, it’s the trolls, because without those fuckers, the other two groups don’t exist, or at least have other shit to talk about. And there’s some really fucking horrible trolls who hang out around here. I use the pie filter and tend to stay out of most of the shit these days because I have better shit to stress out over, but come on–it’s not even a contest.
Jewish Steel
I’m glad I was at dinner. I might have felt compelled to point out that “chimo” is a funnier epithet. For the hurling. Good thing. Whew!
A Humble Lurker
Shorter John Cole: Both sides do it!
Is pedophile sympathizer/enabler okay?
JGabriel
@MikeJ: Real men use vi.
ETA: I know this is true, because Hitchens taught me how to use vi over cigarettes and a bottle of rye.
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Susan Kitchens
@different-church-lady:
Get a job?
Was thinking of those insufferables and their response to people in realms of chronic unemployment.
Then I went back and reviewed the context.
Oh.
Elizabelle
Yep.
Some serious false equivalency there.
Allen
Done reading this post, back to the PBS special about the Kinks and get a dose of venom.
joeyess
@John Cole Please don’t punch me in the neck. I went to the chiropractor today (really just a $50 massage) and don’t want to have to go back again for a while.
Punchy
Cole’s hammered
J. Michael Neal
@amk: Thanks. I got rid of Kaspersky and installed Security Essentials. I’ve downloaded the other two but not installed them yet.
Goddamn things are loading fast. And it didn’t take the computer three minutes to completely open my iTunes music folder.
MikeJ
@JGabriel: No, real men use ed. ed is the standard text editor.
I still use emacs though.
master c
@taylormattd: just what I was thinking-can’t piece it together myself.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@J. Michael Neal:
Norton Anti-Virus. Not their suites, just their AV product. It’s lean and runs unobtrusively in the background. I install it on all systems I service and personally use it. Their product was great until the release of the 2005 product, which sucked up resources like a Kirby vacuum cleaner. It remained bloated until their 2009 release, when they completely rebuilt their AV system.
I am running it on my old Dell Inspiron 9100 (P4-3.2) garage laptop (2012 NAV version) and it loads two TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) programs into RAM, one for the underlying OS and one for your login. Each process consumes just over 10 MB of RAM, hardly anything in the world of bloated apps today. It scans everything that is going on and alerts you when there is a problem, offering solutions for repair. Idle scans halt the moment it detects mouse or keyboard use, immediately returning control of the system to you.
I buy multi-user packs of Norton on ebay, which can be snagged for around $20-$22 bucks for a three PC license pack. I have snagged five pc license packs for about the same price but you have to ‘vulture’ on ebay for those.
You install it and forget it. It continually “pulse” updates rather than downloading complete packages, so it’s constantly up to date, or you can manually update it with two clicks of a mouse. Very unobtrusive and definitely not a resource hog.
For about $7 to $8 bucks to protect a pc for year, I think it’s an excellent product. If you are really cheap, you can install it and then activate it after two weeks (limit) to get an extra two weeks. ;)
I build and repair computers for a living and Norton works. Maybe too well since I definitely never have to fix any of their computers, saving them money and…
Hmmm, I may have to think about handing out those free AV products first. Drum up a lit… oh, Hi!
;p
pseudonymous in nc
Microsoft’s own security suite is actually really good, doesn’t crap all over the OS, and is free if you have a legit copy of Windows. Microsoft basically brought in a bunch of hardcore whitehat security people a handful of years ago, dumped their inhouse shit, and came up with something that works.
scav
vi vote here, mostly because I love the troff stuff (pre-wysiwyg, what a personal kink to own up to) and like @The Dangerman HB to me, HB to me! . . . Utterly missed the meltdown: I was dealing with a frantic animation of toddlers — they gloriously stole my birthday as an excuse to cake out themselves. Clearly, I had the calmer evening.
Martin
@MikeJ: Only if you’re running on a Mac, otherwise you’re just a fucking idiot.
amk
@J. Michael Neal: Glad it worked.
YellowJournalism
Cole angry! Cole SMASH!
Love angry John Cole. Wish I had read that thread to find out why. Garden Gnomes? Live Tootsie blogging? Drunken everyone?! Sounds like a hilarious read.
And instead of a book club read, I would totally be up for a weekly live blog of a classic movie or cheesy flick.
Yutsano
@YellowJournalism:
FWIW I’m stone-cold sober. Bad Coug I know. :)
BGinCHI
Calvados, I barely knew ye.
eastriver
JC getting angry has become a boring cliche. Back in the day he would spend the time and energy and finger juice to write a couple hundred word tirade worth reading, quoting, and linking to.
Now? Foot stomping, drink sloshing, and shitty Photoshopping.
You’ve become a troll with a blog, Johnny C.
YellowJournalism
A sober Coug? Never heard of it.
(Actually, I think I was one of the few of that rare breed most weekends. I’m such a dork.)
Lysana
I wish I could figure out what’s broken with the pie filter. At least one name I have tucked away so I know to laugh instead of engage isn’t being pied for me right now.
Fordpowers
Posts like this are the reason I read this blog… This. And the cute puppies too
moderateindy
Let me revise my comment #62
You ever hear the axiom about when you are taking tests and are unsure about the answer that you should always go with your first instinct?
After actually reading what that string devolved into, there was no redeeming value to it what so-ever. It was in no way fun, funny, or interesting and we all were better off by your decision to eliminate it. Now, however; after reading a large portion of it, I have one more instance, besides watching Fox News, or a Republican Presidential debate, where I can honestly say my time would have been better spent searching the internet for porn, even garden gnome porn.
Yutsano
@YellowJournalism: I was too. Mostly for religious reasons (no I’m not Mormon or Muslim) but also so my friends got home safe. I also always had a car, so that assisted matters there.
JGabriel
moderateindy:
Did someone request gnome porn?
.
JGabriel
John Cole:
OCD?
.
LiberalTarian
Hm. Hardly ever read the comments anymore really. Only read 3 anymore, tpm tbogg and bj. TPM is illegible sometimes, and dumb typos, tbogg doest post often enough. Since I left grad school just can’t keep anyway, let alone pay much attention to flame wars.
dance around in your bones
What the frack? I have no idea what you iz talking about…some of uz only check in when we can….which for me, lately, is once or twice a day.
Don’t let the trolls gets ya down……or, OMFG THEY WIN!!
soonergrunt
@J. Michael Neal: Yes. Believe it or not, Microsoft Security Essentials, available for free from the MS home page. Once installed, updates with Windows Update. Works very, very well, not intrusive at all.
The Tim Channel
First they deleted the trolls and the troublemakers, but as I was neither, I said nothing. Then they deleted the monitors and the peacemakers, lest their mere presence inspire more calamity and confusion. Again, I said nothing. Now they’re deleting entire threads in an attempt to whitewash history. Who needs authoritarian conditioning from the Republicans when we can get it right here!! Hoorah. Those old threads are of great forensic value. I like to go back and read about all the folks who supported Bush’s war based on the obvious bunkum of WMD’s. Wouldn’t want that stuff to get deleted by some overzealous hack at the archives.
Enjoy.
Triassic Sands
Hmmm…could it be the example someone sets?
Pat In Massachusetts
Well then, Happy New Year?
Wee Bey
God bless us, everyone.
Can we get “pedo/cunt” added to the tags?
RossInDetroit
@J. Michael Neal:
A good friend of mine is a pro PC tech for Ford. After viri eated my last desktop machine he built me another and installed MS Security Essentials and malwarebytes. These are the two systems he carries on a thumb drive to rescue crapped-up machines in the field. YMMV and no guarantees, but he knows what he’s doing and I trust him.
gnomedad
Both sides do it!
polyorchnid octopunch
Well, that thread was dumb; resisted the impulse to get sucked in. As antivirus software for PC goes, the best one available for most of you folks is called Linux Mint. Oh, yeah… Vim is the best editor; all you emacs trolls (including my boss) can go fsck yourselves.
polyorchnid octopunch
Well, that thread was dumb; resisted the impulse to get sucked in. As antivirus software for PC goes, the best one available for most of you folks is called Linux Mint. Oh, yeah… Vim is the best editor; all you emacs trolls (including my boss) can go fsck yourselves.
Hawes
That post establishes John Cole as the Cicero of the internet.
nancydarling
John, I just love it when you talk dirty to me. I thankfully (I think) missed that thread as I was on a plane. Did someone use the hated c-word? I thought that word was verboten among those in the know around here—I hate that word with a passion. Call me anything else and I can deal with it.
Samara Morgan
Lissen Assclown.
you were my liberal hero and you got rolled by a glibertarian grifter that I KNEW FROM BEFORE, and then you and the FPs banned the shit out of me when i pointed that out.
And now it appears THAT I WAS RIGHT and you cant scramble a single mea culpa.
im not gunna carry your cross for you.
And your “American Interests”slipperry slope to OIF position on Libya was a horrendous pile of crap too.
grow up you WATB.
Commenting at Ballon Juice since 1937
See, both sides do it.
Samara Morgan
@Commenting at Ballon Juice since 1937: And if Cole just banned all the trolls and hall monitors, then he could have a sully-style blog with no comments.
Citizen_X
@Samara Morgan: Now it’s a party.
Samara Morgan
@Citizen_X: your link is fubar.
you’re welcome.
Dustin
Aww, I miss all the fun. Oh well, back to one last Christmas family gathering. You kids have fun.
JR in WV
John wrote “And why do I have to do this every three fucking months?”
Before, John wrote because “This is the fucking internet. People say offensive shit.” And that’s why he has to do this every so often…
Is this why my comments on another post went to moderation? It isn’t on a thread, but on the whole blog-balloon-o-shpere?
That’s typical, punish me over there for something some other dork wrote over the other place. ;-)
Get over it John. Maybe we’ll beat Clemson this time, the new coach seems pretty professional. Don always treated a bowl like a vacation trip… I think that’s why he mostly lost.
I can’t believe nearly all the NCAA bowl games are on ESPN!!! I’m stuck with Utah! And Vandy vrs Cincy; which at least it’s Big East. I don’t even know all the teams in the Big 12/10/11 or whatever… If we’ll ever get into that league.
How can schedules be managed with this hanging fire in a RI courtroom? Hotels, airplanes, food, etc. What a cluster! I’m gonna have to go to a sports bar for the Orange Bowl! Suckage.
I hate to cry in public, and if they win I won’t be able to help myself. My (late) Dad was a huge WVU fan, and took us to many bowls we lost, and a couple we won.
So I was bleeding Blue and Gold long before I enrolled at MU.
Samara Morgan
and get this Cole….wanna know how to shield yourself from my trolling at least?
admit you were fucking wrong where you were fucking wrong.
i saw you tweet that you were wrong on Libya, but you hella sure nevah said it here.
Samara Morgan
well the devil got my number an the devil got my size
an the devil got my head and the devil got my eyes
it usta be it was just my house an it usta be it was just my tongue
see the devil got my address and the devil got my car
im tryin’ hard to get up but he made it to my heart
an im nevah comin back from the darkdarkdark
Tony T
Best post I’ve read in in a week, effing YES!
gelfling545
@The Dangerman: Many happy returns of the day. My sister’s bday is on 1/1 and hardly ever got celebrated on that day because mom & dad were “tired” after celebrating New Years Eve. I try to make her a nice dinner on her day to make up for past neglect.
agrippa
@Samara Morgan:
Somehow I doubt that Cole has much interest in you.
You are, merely, a game player. You are here to play the fool.
You succeed.
Keep typing.
harlana
It’s a BLOG!
Rome Again
Only once every three months, John? I find that to be a very successful ratio, considering the level of mud that gets slung around here on a daily basis. That’s much better than I would have thought. :)
Cheers, Happy New Year!
Quiddity
John has nobody to blame but himself. The tone of the comments has been in steep decline for over 12 months now. There are a number of notable regular commenters who excel at the condescending ad-hominem put down. And then there’s the vocabulary: fee-fees, emo-whatever, WATB, firebagger,…
And this kind of bile is directed at people who make even mild dissent about Obama’s policies.
John created a haven for this kind of chatter. This is what you get as a result. A place where people toss verbal spitballs at each other. The only surprise is that the visitor traffic has held steady. So I guess there’s an audience for trash talk.
Finally, even the post title, “Listen, Assholes” is juvenile. Mr. Cole needs to grow up.
BethanyAnne
It wasn’t a troll-fest. All I said was that Israel should look at doing a final solution on gay Palestinians before Obama sends a drone fleet to take out Iran’s PETA training grounds. For NAMBLA. Perfectly innocent remark.
April Willmore
this about sums up 2011 for me:
Let us never speak of 2011 again!!
or to quote the Danger Man, rot in hell, Year.
that said, hope your new year is glorious and filled with breakthroughs!!!!!
Sophia
I’m just happy to finally have the slightest sense of what Samara is referring to when she calls herself Cassandra.
Dustin
@Quiddity: Steep decline for over twelve months? And how the hell would you know? I’ve been reading this site for years and commenting on-and-off for over two. It’s the same now as it was then.
Darkrose
The wife and I just had a fabulous dinner. It was expensive, but we wanted to say “Fuck Off, 2011” in style. Seriously, I hope the door hits this year squarely in the ass on the way out.
May 2012 be better for us all!