Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

The problem people have with Biden’s age is the color of the VPs skin.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Bogus polls are all they’ve got left. Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls a year from now.

Another missed opportunity for Jamie Dimon to just shut the fuck up.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Please don’t feed the bears.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

This fight is for everything.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

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

This really is a full service blog.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Motown is Joe-Town!

It’s a doggy dog world.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

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  1. 1.

    Cermet

    Slept in to 4:30 this morning – still snowing but should change to rain (ugh – ice!) I guess not much to do except read BJ and other blogs or news sites … .

  5. 5.

    Arclite

    I used to live in Harbin in the ’70s. It was a nudist colony back then. I’ve not been back in 35 years. That was the Californian one, of course, not the Chinese one…

  6. 6.

    Raven

    Fixin to rain here so it will in South Carolina as well. Wonder what impact that will have on the primary?

  13. 13.

    dilford

    Had the option of working 4 hours of overtime this morning (5 to 9), but the combination of not leaving work until 10 last night and our public library book sale starting at 9 this morning made my decision for me. With any luck at all, I’ll make more selling some of my finds from the library sale than I’d make doing the overtime.

  14. 14.

    sb

    Our recently rescued (by us–yeah, we’re saints), nearly blind, nearly toothless 10-inch toy poodle apparently thinks 4:30am is ninja time. I’m going to start bad-mouthing doctors in front of her.

  16. 16.

    WereBear

    @R-Jud: Happens to everybody eventually. When they are very young, even vets can call it wrong.

    This is a great opening for me to remind everyone that cats can be altered quite young; and probably should be. Rescues can have some “Oriental” genes which lead to early sexual maturation. Early deprivation, even in the womb, can trigger a cat to “get on with it” as Mother Nature’s way of perpetuating the species in tough times. So don’t delay!

  17. 17.

    sb

    @dilford: I get a teacher discount this morning–a big one–and I swear I couldn’t in a lifetime read all the books I buy from the library in a day. I still support the local bookstore but library sales are fucking godsends for teachers.

    If I wasn’t a high school english teacher, I’d probably sell every last one of them for a profit, if I could. But every year, about half of my kids are grateful for the books I cajole them into reading–“extra reading” we call it (damn creative, I know) so I keep them.

    Yeah, my classroom is chaos, thanks for asking.

  18. 18.

    Cat Lady

    @Elizabelle:

    So, Newt married his geometry teacher when he was 19, and Santorum’s wife married the ob/gyn who delivered her, and Mitt’s acting out his daddy issues. The whole clown car should just be lured into the nearest sanitarium with the highest gate, never to be seen or heard from again.

  19. 19.

    JPL

    It’s 60 degrees in Roswell, GA and we’re under a tornado watch. Good times!
    @R-Jud: My son’s male cat is named Alice and my female dog is Moxie. We have gender identity problems but the animals don’t seem to mind.

  21. 21.

    Raven

    @JPL: You saw where the police chief in Canton resigned over the Jorelys Rivera murder I’m sure? I was amazed that the trial was that quick.

  22. 22.

    RedKitten

    @R-Jud: Might as well just keep the same name. My friends had the same issue — a fluffy black cat with a white throat who they named Father Ted. Well, come to find out that Father Ted was actually a female. They kept the name. So it’s quite amusing to see the reaction of visitors when they hear the name “Father Ted” combined with the female pronoun.

  23. 23.

    merrinc

    @WereBear:

    It’s impossible to fully appreciate how much painful and frightening pneumonia can be until one has personally experienced it. I had it twice in 18 months and then convinced my doctor to give me the pneumonia vaccine. Yes, there is one available but for some reason the standard practice is to give it only to those over 65. In light of my history, my doc gave it to me at the tender age of 49. For the next three years, I didn’t have so much as a sniffle.

    So, WereBear – I wish you a very speedy recovery. And ask your doc about the vaccine once you’re better.

  24. 24.

    JPL

    @Raven: Brunn hung himself. I hope someone helped him. Did you read that he left a note on the trash container (although small) stating she was in there.

  27. 27.

    Phylllis

    I’ll be heading out about 7:30 this evening to get the primary results for the local paper I work for as a correspondent. I look for Santorum to win in here in this county of uber God botherers.

  29. 29.

    Josie

    @R-Jud: I would just keep the same name. I doubt whether a gender specific name will matter either to your child or the cat.

  30. 30.

    ThresherK

    @R-Jud: Cute kitteh. Is the expression in the photo is far too knowing to be a concidence?

    I take it that nobody in your house has a future in the fast-paced, high-flying, glamorous world of chicken sexing.

  31. 31.

    dilford

    @sb: Thank you for fighting the good fight – keeping books in front of young(er) eyes is a cultural imperative. Hmmm, maybe I’ll swipe and chop yr last statement. “Chaos is my classroom.” Too hi-falutin’?

  36. 36.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    As a parent, that may be one of the best cartoons I’ve seen in a while.

  37. 37.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    On the agenda for the START of the weekend? Shoveling snow, dammit, and with my back.

    No, wait, in the spirit of that cartoon, I need to convince my son that I dislike all my neignbors who clear their driveways before mid-afternoon.

    Of course, he’d have to get out of bed before mid-afternoon, for this to work, wouldn’t he?

  39. 39.

    WaterGirl

    @WereBear: So sorry to hear you have pneumonia! I had it 3 times when I was in my twenties before they figured out that I was allergic to flea chemicals.

    I was laid up for 3 weeks the last time, and I thought I would lose my mind. I was SO tired and got really cranky by the end. I hope you recover much more quickly than that.

    Did they call yours “walking pneumonia”? I have never really understood the difference between that and the other kind.

  40. 40.

    handsmile

    Awoke to the glorious sounds of snow being shoveled from sidewalks! Hallelujah, winter finally arrives in New York City! The first snowfall since October 30, but tragically it won’t last as it’s forecast to be over 50F come Monday.

    For stories other than Newt and South Carolina, this one from today’s Guardian might be just the ticket: “Reasons to be cheerful in 2012: It’s not the end of the world. Again.”:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/20/cheerful-2012-end-of-world?intcmp=122

  41. 41.

    handsmile

    Also too, could someone who knows about how these things work look into the disappearance of the “Edit” option that appears once a comment has been posted. It vanished sometime last night.

    For me at least, it’s an essential tool to clean up misspellings or re-word clumsy phrasings. Thanks in advance to any WP mechanics who might be lurking.

  42. 42.

    Steeplejack

    Stayed up unusually late last night–until after 3:30–so I slept in until after 9:00. Looks like we got more snow than I thought here in NoVa, but it’s still less than an inch. And it doesn’t seem to be sticking to the pavement, although there are patches of ice. Not a morning to be out and about. So I’m kicking it in the man-cave. Got Everton-Blackburn Rovers on TV in the background. Had a cup of coffee, thinking about real breakfast in a bit. Maybe Montalbano on DVD later.

    Great cartoon.

  43. 43.

    ThresherK

    @scav: Chicken sexing–telling the baby male chicks from the females–is always in the running for “worst job in the world”. And it’s not a lot of fun for the fowl either.

    I was trying to deadpan reverse it where the original poster and son had a kitten in their house for several weeks and thought it was a male, but it was not. My mom did that with a kitten ages ago.

    (PS I’m aware of all internet traditions, but what does QI mean?)

  44. 44.

    WereBear

    @WaterGirl: Did they call yours “walking pneumonia”? I have never really understood the difference between that and the other kind.

    Yes, they are, but only because I was walking around. This is not an Official Opinion. And, it turned out, I shouldn’t have been doing that!

  46. 46.

    Steeplejack

    I notice the edit function has disappeared, at least for me. I think this happened before. Was it a solution to delete your browser’s Balloon Juice cookies and then let them be refreshed?

  49. 49.

    JCT

    Well, to quell a bit of a hangover I started my day like this:

    Sorry for the quality but still unpacking my real camera stuff.

    And today I am going to finish the adoption paperwork and fees for MY NEW KITTEHS! 2 sweet girls to keep me company in this fucking RV until the rest of my family joins me. Here is what they were doing when I first met them:

    I’m still working on names — suggestions are welcome! We already have a male rescue cat, the infamous Mango.

    I’m so excited!

  50. 50.

    JCT

    Grrrrrr — no links. First was chorizo and eggs and fresh squeezed grapefruit juice and the second was the jet-black kit tie grooming the orange tabby. Sigh.

  52. 52.

    Steeplejack

    @Steeplejack:

    . . . And, no, I can’t.

    I thought that when this happened before you could delete all your browser’s Balloon Juice cookies and then when they got repopulated the edit function would miraculously reappear. But that’s not the case, at least with Firefox (9.0.1).

  55. 55.

    ThresherK

    @WereBear (itouch): Onslow? That’s a fellow who’s much slobbier than any cat I’ve ever known.

    Now a dog, on the other hand…

    But “Hyacinth” seems fit for a fussy cat who likes everything and everyone else juuuuuust soooooooo in her life, and complains if not.

  56. 56.

    Suffern ACE

    So sick cat what has Horner’s syndrome has epilepsy and most likely a tumor. I’m kind of lost at the moment.

  57. 57.

    Yutsano

    @ThresherK:

    But “Hyacinth” seems fit for a fussy cat who likes everything and everyone else juuuuuust soooooooo in her life, and complains if not.

    Which would be…all cats.

    @Suffern ACE: Oh I’m sorry. Did the vet give any options to you for treatment?

  58. 58.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    I’ve given up on the Climate Change/Global Warming issue. The more the science solidifies, the more people simply assume that 99% of scientists are either full on flaming retarded or shucksters, while choosing to believe every single bit of pablum Exxon and BP put out. Apparently, America is more willing to believe there’s a massive worldwide conspiracy spearheaded by Al Gore and climate institutes than anything else, and if you say otherwise, guess what?! YOU’RE A TRAITOR AND YOU SHOULD PROBABLY BE KILLED YOU FUCKING WARMIST HERETIC ALARMIST!!!

    Fuck it…they’ve won….enjoy your scorched earth, fuckers.

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