Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

We still have time to mess this up!

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

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

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

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

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Republicans do not trust women.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Second rate reporter says what?

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

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

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  5. 5.

    robertdsc-PowerBook

    If you show a picture of Lily like this, I’m calling the President to order a drone strike on your house.

  7. 7.

    General Stuck

    Tunch looks hungry, and quite evil. I’d sleep in the bathtub tonight, preferably full of water, just to be sure.

  11. 11.

    MikeJ

    I didn’t think light could escape that much mass. Maybe the glowy bits are Hawking radiation.

  17. 17.

    eemom

    speak of the kitty-devil — I was looking at my Balloon Juice calendar and I noticed there’s a picture of Tunch on every page except May. Why isn’t he on May??

  20. 20.

    tulip

    My my he is a big boy isn’t he? He was looking thinner in some of the recent pictures…

    Apparently it was the angle.

  26. 26.

    RareSanity

    Tunch is NOT amused…

    All I can imagine him thinking is:

    “At some point in time, you will have to sleep, human. It is then, that you will learn the consequences of your actions. Sleep tight funny man…”

  29. 29.

    jl

    Oh man, you are roadkill, Cole.
    Nice knowing you, big guy.

    At least we will have your pic now, in your memory, at the top of the blog.

    BTW, who is Tunch’s healthful slimming diet coming along? Or has he furred up for the brutal WV winters? Or is it both?

    Edit: Just one roll away, Cole, just one malicious Tunchroll away, over the hapless Cole, while he SLEEPS, and its pancake time. Sweet dreams, Cole.

  30. 30.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I’ll pay for this crime, I’m sure.

    Unlike RC/Veritas’ GOP primary predictions, that you can take to the bank.

  32. 32.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @eemom:

    I’m not home and don’t have my BJ calendar to hand, but I would have sworn Tunch was in every month. Might be misremembering, but you should maybe check again just to be sure. And I will look when I get home.

  38. 38.

    jl

    Also, I think I’ll check for a high res version on the NASA site. Isn’t that Hubble telescope a wonder? Must be in the wide angle section.

    Hey, 37, no fair! One of us read the other’s mind.

  39. 39.

    cathyx

    I had 5 cats when I was growing up. One of them George, was obese and he was a long haired cat. Needless to say he looked huge. He never learned how to meow because he never needed to. My mom always fed him before he asked.

  41. 41.

    General Stuck

    Just received my Wacom graphics tablet today, and am giddy to play with it. Move over Picasso, here i come.

  45. 45.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @cathyx:

    I had a 24-pound cat who rejoiced, unironically, in the name of Gay. (This was in the early 1950s, okay?)

    One time he was dozing on a windowseat in our dining room. He must have had a bad dream or something because he leaped up from a sound sleep, FLUNG himself through the window screen, landed several feet down, and ended up having to get a bunch of stitches because he had ripped up his side with the sharp edges of steel screening that he ripped through.

    Sweet cat but kind of stupid.

  46. 46.

    Jc

    Holy crap! That is one scary ass looking kitty!

    Whew!

    After the initial fright, I started chuckling.

    Good one Cole – we know Tunch is a sweetheart – but u wouldn’t know from this pic!

  50. 50.

    cathyx

    @SiubhanDuinne: We named our cats by looking up our last name in the phone book and seeing what first names were there. We had an unusual last name, so there weren’t many names to choose from. But we ended up with George, Charlie, Peter, Ralph, and Penny.

  51. 51.

    rikyrah

    found this quote about Willard at Washington Monthly:

    John in TX on February 09, 2012 11:06 AM:
    The Murdoch Street Journal says: “What Mr. Romney needs is to make a better, positive case for his candidacy beyond his business resume.”

    And there’s the rub. Romney can’t make a “better, positive” case because he has none to make. It simply wasn’t written into the operating system he’s running. This waxen simulacrum of a human being is like most of the 1 percent: a highly neurotic, control-freak sociopath who’s only “achievements” in life were made possible by the family’s money. Just like Shrub before him, if not for the gold-plated ladder provided by the family name Mitt would be working on a used car lot or as an assistant night manager at Pay Less Shoes. He simply feels he deserves the Presidency; he doesn’t actually have any ideas about what he’d do once there. (And as we all know, any “beliefs” this blundering animatronic mannequin has are likely to simply change with the direction of the wind.)

    absolutely on point. WILLARD has no ‘ Plan B’

  57. 57.

    HRA

    he he Tunch has a plan and there is nothing nice in it.

    I recommend a can of tuna before he enters the Cole Castle.

  59. 59.

    gnomedad

    @eemom:

    I noticed there’s a picture of Tunch on every page except May. Why isn’t he on May??

    Well, no wonder he’s pissed.

  61. 61.

    tBone

    Jesus Christ. That cat is one box of kitty treats away from having a reality TV crew bust down his bedroom wall and hoist him out with a crane.

  67. 67.

    Michael

    PublicPolicyPolling @ppppolls
    We put a national poll in the field today and pretty clear your new leader is Rick Santorum.

    Oh my.

  71. 71.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @cathyx:

    Post-Gay (sorry, that sounds like the cat went into therapy with Marcus Bachmann, and of course that’s not what I mean), my sister had a female cat named Dinah after Alice’s cat in Alice in Wonderland.

    Dinah’s first litter consisted of two kittens. We named them Jabberwocky and JubJub.

    The second litter was three kittens: Mimsey, Momerath, and Bandersnatch.

    The next litter was four kittens: Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

    At that point I left home.

  75. 75.

    Mnemosyne

    BTW, apparently a foam dart gun is the best toy EVAH! Charlotte got so mad that I wouldn’t fetch the darts for her after I shot them that she tackled Annie to take out her frustration.

  76. 76.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @goethean:

    Why is it that you can see wooden planks right through his body?

    the large cat is sitting behind a glass window and the planks are a reflection.

  78. 78.

    MacKenna

    Tunch looks like Mr. Creosote. Don’t offer him a dinner mint if you know what’s good for you.

  82. 82.

    Citizen_X

    The Fat Force is strong with that one.

    And no, the planks aren’t a “reflection,” foolish humans. It looks that way because Tunch can project his ghostly image anywhere. Even INTO YOUR DREAMS!

  84. 84.

    scav

    Four threads on and John still isn’t sleeping: and with good reason. I think we’ll all be up all night.

  88. 88.

    Catsy

    @gex: There is a cartoonist by the name of B. Kliban who draws cats, silly-looking cats in all sorts of situations.

    One of the few that I remember to this day has two cats in it, both wearing jackets and one of them wearing what looks like a ChiCom ushanka. One cat remarks: “Mao (meow)”. The one with the hat is looking at what appears to be little black droppings on the ground, and says, “Mousie Dung.”

    Say it out loud.

    Can’t find a good image of it, but this is the strip on this shirt: mousie dung

  89. 89.

    Biscuits

    Yes Master. His glare is strong. I just got up and opened the slider for no reason. I must now find my kitteh to cuddle.

  95. 95.

    harlana

    well, by your subsequent posts, at least we know you survived to live another day, but at the time that photo was taken, i certainly would have had my doubts

  98. 98.

    harlana

    @Martin: my dear departed kitteh, who was a complete love, i named “Schmoo” because when she was a kitten she was wild as hell and it just seemed like all i could see were those big eyes during those brief intervals when she wasn’t ripping around the apartment! However, she ended up being the calmest and sweetest of the 3. Her proper name was “Chloe” but Schmoo stuck, the spelling is not proper i guess but that’s the story.

  101. 101.

    harlana

    the question being, do i wait to let him in and postpone my eventual death, or do i just go ahead and get it over with now?

  102. 102.

    harlana

    unwilling to concede that he was in the wrong

    i think that is the genesis of the problem right there, because the being who is in the wrong in this scenario is John Cole for expecting a cat, especially of the Tunch-variety, to come when you call, instead of showing up when he damn well pleases, naturally expecting you to be waiting by the door to let him in stat, which, after all, you should be doing in the first place.

    let that be a lesson to you.

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