Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Infrastructure week. at last.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

In my day, never was longer.

We still have time to mess this up!

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

This really is a full service blog.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

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

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Much better than Joe Arpaio!

    Also, too, I might note that his name does not end in a string of vowels!

  5. 5.

    The Dangerman

    “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing”

    or, perhaps:

    “Mitt Romney? Seriously?!”

  7. 7.

    cmorenc

    Max’s expression means he’s probably thinking:

    “why do I have to lie on this hard floor when there’s that wonderfully comfy-looking couch in the living room? Why does my human bark harshly at me if I get up on the couch? He’s good to me most of the time, why is he so mean about the couch?”

  9. 9.

    Mark S.

    No decision on health care today. Is it just me, or did the SC used to wrap up in late May/early June?

  13. 13.

    Hill Dweller

    The wingnuts in the House are blocking the transportation bill, which would create 1.9 million jobs.

  16. 16.

    Violet

    Did anyone notice that Ron Paul actually won the Iowa caucuses.

    Rick Santorum narrowly won January’s Iowa caucuses, and future Republican nominee Mitt Romney finished a close second. But when the state’s delegates head to the Republican National Convention in August, most of them will be loyal backers of third-place finisher Ron Paul.

  22. 22.

    shortstop

    @Mark S.: And there are plenty more who will insist that he’s still a principled originalist. But it’s getting harder and harder to defend against the charge that he’s now motivated in large degree by politics and spite.

    @Yutsano: I think he thinks that getting this out a few days ahead of the ACA decision is covering his ass. I think he thinks wrong.

  23. 23.

    MikeJ

    @shortstop: I wonder if anybody will ask Fat Tony if he now thinks Gonzales v. Raich was improperly decided, based on his new thinking.

    Sadly, I don’t think the press are smart enough to formulate the question.

  27. 27.

    Mnemosyne

    @shortstop:

    So that means that, the next time a medical marijuana case comes up, Scalia will say that, since Rickard was wrongly decided, it’s A-OK for someone to grow marijuana in their backyard for their own consumption?

    Man, I crack myself up sometimes.

  30. 30.

    Dork

    Here’s what I think is the money quote:

    Indeed, in his book, Scalia leaves some wiggle room to change his mind back in the future.
    …
    Per the Times, Scalia writes that he “does not swear that the opinions that he joins or writes in the future will comply with what is written here,” in part because “a judge must remain open to persuasion by counsel.”

    Shorter Tony: I needed Wickard to make a Republican argument with a Republican president. I’m needing to reverse that now, since a Democrat is in office. I’ll probably need to re-reverse myself in the future when a Republican re-takes the presidency.

    Honestly, isnt that exactly what he’s telegraphing?

  33. 33.

    trollhattan

    Puppeh looks like he’s collapsed on a cool floor on a hot day. At least that’s what ours does much of the summer. I hear a startling “thud” and see she’s flopped. It’s preferable to having her crawl on my lap all winter (too big for a lap dog, but she “just don’t care”).

    I didn’t know Erik Loomis and Glennzilla were having a feud. Glenzilla carries on a lot of those, doesn’t he?

    http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2012/06/my-challenge-to-glenn-greenwald

  34. 34.

    J. Michael Neal

    @shortstop: And still leaves himself room to change his mind back to his first position because “a judge must remain open to persuasion by counsel.”

  36. 36.

    Triassic Sands

    Max is imagining a Romney victory and a GOP majority in both houses. I feel the same way.

    (Either that or he’s thinking about the biggest dog biscuit in the universe.)

  38. 38.

    Brachiator

    Max is looking how I felt after seeing “Prometheus.”Lovely visuals, but a tv movie level plot that oscillated between stupid and incomprehensible, and largely interchangeable cardboard characters who had little to do aside from being set up for their inevitable fate. I liked the leads, especially Michael Fassender and Noomi Rapace, but they were ultimately failed to lift the movie above being merely tolerable. The summer movie season started well, and I had looked forward to seeing a number of these films, but except for “The Hunger Games” and “The Avengers,” it’s been pretty wan stuff.

  39. 39.

    catclub

    @J. Michael Neal: One is reminded of the story of a judge and two lawyers. One lawyer gave the judge $10k bribe, opposing lawyer gave the judge a $15k bribe.

    The judge returns the extra $5k and tells them, “This way I will just decide the case on its merits.”

  40. 40.

    catclub

    @Jebediah: The NPR report was weird to me. He was found drowned in his pool, but then they took a long time to point out that he was a very good swimmer, and a short time to say that no foul play was suspected.

    I guess it must have been clear he had a heart attack/stroke and then drowned. But maybe they could say that.

  41. 41.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Violet:

    That’s because the Iowa Caucuses in January decide NOTHING but are great horse race fodder for the morons of the MSM.

    The actual delegates who have a say in the nomination process are selected independently of the moronic caucuses, which really are nothing but a straw poll.

  43. 43.

    cckids

    @asiangrrlMN: I don’t think he looks sad. Just . . . focused, as though he is starring in a movie in his mind. Doggy Avengers, maybe. Max obviously is the hero.

  47. 47.

    Brachiator

    @liberal:

    Sounds like I liked the movie more than you did, but I completely agree about the plot.

    You had characters saying “I’m a geologist” or “I’m a biologist,” and yet this was utterly irrelevant to anything that happened in the movie and seemed like nothing more than cinematic name tags. I want to blame the screenwriters for such an empty script, but I don’t know what director Ridley Scott was thinking either.

    But I didn’t hate the movie. Individual scenes were interesting, but as a whole it was disjointed and just not satisfying.

  48. 48.

    RareSanity

    @Tim F. (top):

    Tim, as someone that is just starting to get into taking pictures (I can’t call it “photography” yet), can you post your shooting information with your pics (lens type, f-stop, ISO, flash, etc)? I know I would really appreciate it.

    Was that picture taken with a zoom or fixed focal lens?

  49. 49.

    RareSanity

    (response to previous comment)

    Never mind…went back through the archives and found the link to your flickr page.

  50. 50.

    Mnemosyne

    @Brachiator:

    If you like animation, G and I got to see a preview of Brave this weekend, and it was really good. The trailer doesn’t give much away, so there are quite a few surprises but, as G said, it’s pretty cool that they were able to make a movie with lots of action scenes that’s still firmly centered on the relationship between a mother and a daughter.

    ETA: Full disclosure for those who don’t remember, my paycheck is signed by the same rodent that owns Pixar. But despite my bias, Brave is still a terrific film, which is not something I was willing to say about Cars 2.

  52. 52.

    Tim F.

    @RareSanity: Clicking the picture will also take you straight to my Flickr page. The lens here is Panasonic’s excellent 20mm f/1.7 for micro four thirds cameras.

  53. 53.

    RareSanity

    @Tim F.:

    Very nice…

    My wife and son gave me a Canon 600D (Rebel T3i), what I think is a really good entry-level DSLR, for Father’s Day. The “bundle” came with a 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 and a 55-250mm f/4-5.6. Just ordered a 50mm f/1.8 and can’t wait till it gets here. I’m also thinking about buying an inexpensive, third party E-TTL Speedlite…just to complete my Photography 101 bag.

    I’ll send you some links along the way so you can tell me how you think I’m progressing…

  54. 54.

    Brachiator

    @Mnemosyne:

    If you like animation, G and I got to see a preview of Brave this weekend, and it was really good. The trailer doesn’t give much away, so there are quite a few surprises but, as G said, it’s pretty cool that they were able to make a movie with lots of action scenes that’s still firmly centered on the relationship between a mother and a daughter.

    I am looking forward to seeing Brave. I am trying to avoid spoilers, but have seen hints that some of the early reviews are not as glowing as those of some of the better previous Pixar films.

    And I’m still a bit peeved that Emma Thompson is one of the few non Scots voices among the film’s leads. Yeah, she is a great actress and all, but still. Shoulda been All Scotland.

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