Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fight them, without becoming them!

In after Baud. Damn.

In my day, never was longer.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

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

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

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

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

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

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

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

People are complicated. Love is not.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Let there be snark.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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REPOST: Rachel Maddow’s Drift Giveaway

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As I said last night, thanks to Crown Publishing’s generosity, I have a signed hardback copy of Rachel’s book waiting for a lucky Balloon Juice reader.

I’ve updated the giveaway parameters slightly, at the suggestion of commentor Warren Terra and some others: WordPress willing, I’ll put up a third post this evening shortly after 7pm EDT, titled “CONTEST: Drift Giveaway“. Everybody who’s interested gets one entry, one comment. (Duplicate comments will get you eliminated.) The contest will stay open until Tuesday evening, so everyone should have a chance to enter. Then I’ll use a random number generator (my technical advisor, aka the Spousal Unit, has one he wrote for FRP gaming) to pick the number of the winning comment. (And many thanks to Cole and the website builder for rebuilding the comment-number function so you don’t have to trust my hand-counting!)

Looking forward to this evening…

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51Comments

  1. 1.

    Southern Beale

    Wait, I’m confused. So you comment on the thread that’s being posted tonight and then you’re randomly selected for the book? Does the content of the comment have anything to do with it? Does it have to be a good comment? Can it just be horseshit?

  3. 3.

    Arm The Homeless

    I am going to be real disappointed when the RNG picks one of the trolls. How do we keep DougJ from just proxying a bunch of his sockpuppets?

  4. 4.

    scav

    Somehow I doubt it’s an early number but it’s still too much fun watching them appear.
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    ETA, Ah, infinite regress as a contest. Liking this, I’m in an easily amused mood today.

  5. 5.

    Mark B

    I’m pretty sure my whining about the redesign disqualifies me. That, or being excessively earnest and somewhat of a thickie.

  7. 7.

    Ken

    @Southern Beale: That’s what it sounds like. Personally I would also eliminate any comments complaining about the blog appearance, but that might not leave any entries.

  9. 9.

    Libby's person

    I’d love a copy of Rachel’s book! I’m a pretty random kind of person, I should be just right for a random number generator!

  11. 11.

    Martin

    Let me be the first to say that not only is Anne Laurie the best front-pager, but probably the finest, and most lovely blogger anywhere.

  12. 12.

    JPL

    @Raven: Just saw your comment about the chicken man. He lived two miles from me. Roswell has a lot of regulations including tight restrictions on tree removal. (hopefully not pines, hehehe) Betty Price is on the city council and we all know how her husband Rep.Tom Price loves the attention Fox news bestows on him. In other words we’re a bunch of hypocrites.

  13. 13.

    Violet

    Does it have to be a comment on topic or can it be any old comment, including bitching about the site redesign and/or trolling.

  15. 15.

    General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)

    What I really like about Rachel, is her admitting on air, she was wrong with some of her handwringing hysteria that Obama was getting ready to sell out the farm. And didn’t. Easily the smartest person in the pundit room. All class, even when wrong on occasion.

  17. 17.

    Karl

    I’m 100% gay but Rachel always makes me think I could reconsider someday. I doubt she feels that way about me though.

  19. 19.

    scav

    Del working yet? Bold? Ital?
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    Is it working in a block?
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    Del working yet? Bold? Ital?

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    Is it working in a code?
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    Del working yet? Bold? Ital?
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    ETA: Huzzah! Code working as per tin!

  20. 20.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @Martin:

    Let me be the first to say that not only is Anne Laurie the best front-pager, but probably the finest, and most lovely blogger anywhere.

    Fucking flattery, how does it work? You would have been road kill at the court of Louis XIV.

  23. 23.

    Alison

    To be clear – commenting on THIS thread does not count as an entry, right? We comment on the thread tonight to enter?

    I actually am happy to buy a copy and send more money Rachel’s way…but at the same time, a signed copy would be awesome. I met her once and have a photo of myself at the front of a crowd greeting her, but have always rued that I didn’t either get a pic posing with her or get her to sign something, just for a more sentimental memento :)

  24. 24.

    kc

    Oh, you fixed the center justification thingie. Yay.

    And thanks for the comment numbers and FP’er byline at top of post. Looks good.

  29. 29.

    thruppence

    7 pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time? Greenwich Mean Time? American Samoa? West Coast minds want to know.

  31. 31.

    Brooklyn Michael

    Here’s hoping the quality of the comment doesn’t hinder our chances of winning…

  32. 32.

    Anne Laurie

    @Chowkster:

    I would like to have the book, but I am not in the US…

    Well, if you (or another non-US commentor) enters & wins, I’ll mail you the book. Whether it ever reaches you will be in the hands of your postal service.

  34. 34.

    samara morgan

    haha, heres my favorite comment evan.
    one that you deleted when you “sin-banned” me.
    during OWS week at BJ, aws said…

    what are the owwies going to do? deliver pizzas to the trading floor?

    and i said…..

    yup. snowcrash pizzas.

  35. 35.

    Handy

    You can have your service all my service and schedule something – let’s write it in pencil.

  44. 44.

    Linda Featheringill

    I understand that commenting more than once will disqualify you for the drawing.

    This is a wonderful opportunity for those of us without optimism. We can talk about folks who already have their one comment in the thread and they will be loathe to defend themselves.

    Such mischief we could do!

  45. 45.

    MjOregon

    I would dearly love to receive one of Rachel’s books! (and yes, that sucking up sound you hear is coming from my keyboard)

  48. 48.

    Arclite

    I love the idea of this book. I’m sure that Rachel isn’t the first to examine this trend, but she must be the most high-profile person to do so. And it’s a critical question: why the F are we constantly at war? I think the short answer is: because we can (we have the money, technology, self-righteousness, etc.).

    So kudos to her.

  51. 51.

    Calming Influence

    Who else is betting that Spousal Unit’s “random” number generator thingy miraculously generates Spousal Unit’s comment?
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    Uh huh. That’s what I thought.
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    [Razansplashen blibboflavin daggone spodderfluffles…]

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