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You are here: Home / We Have Arrived

We Have Arrived

by John Cole|  July 3, 201212:11 am| 131 Comments

This post is in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Clown Shoes, Get off my grass you damned kids

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The continued world domination of the Balloon Juice empire shows no signs of slowing:

Up next, a trenchant comment from Punchy ends the drug war, Just Some Fuckhead’s deep debate with everyone encourages global unity, RedKitten’s repeated posts of Samkitten pictures leads to a global expansion of neonatal care, and a late night drunken post by me changes the national anthem from the Star Spangled Banner to Led Zeppelin’s “Your Time is Gonna Come.”

Just think. You were all here when it happened, and who knows, your comment to this thread may change history.

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131Comments

  1. 1.

    sherifffruitfly

    July 3, 2012 at 12:13 am

    I came here expecting more drunk-dial hilarity. This isn’t bad, though.

  2. 2.

    Joseph Nobles

    July 3, 2012 at 12:14 am

    *sidelong stinkeye at Scalia*

    *shoving resignation papers his way*

  3. 3.

    Arclite

    July 3, 2012 at 12:14 am

    Heh, I liked reading, “who knows, your comment to this thread may change history.” and right under that seeing “No Comments”

  4. 4.

    The Dangerman

    July 3, 2012 at 12:14 am

    Shit, I bet no one here knew that Robert’s nickname was Tunch.

  5. 5.

    Badtux

    July 3, 2012 at 12:14 am

    Don’t get a big head over the recognition, John.

    Oh WTF, you’re entitled to as big a head as you want. Congrats ;).

    – Badtux the Gracious Penguin

  6. 6.

    Joseph Nobles

    July 3, 2012 at 12:15 am

    Dang, putting your comment between two asterisks bolds the line. WE DON’T KNOW OUR OWN POWER.

  7. 7.

    FlipYrWhig

    July 3, 2012 at 12:17 am

    Doesn’t Kaus’s comment make more sense if he thinks you’re still a conservative, John?

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    July 3, 2012 at 12:17 am

    We’ve arrived?

    Can we get some ice cream now?

  9. 9.

    suzanne

    July 3, 2012 at 12:19 am

    So what major liberal agenda does Tunch effect?

    Can I just get higher pay for your local friendly design professional?

  10. 10.

    Yutsano

    July 3, 2012 at 12:20 am

    @suzanne: Tunch can be lobbied, but it requires yellowfin.

  11. 11.

    Joshua Norton

    July 3, 2012 at 12:21 am

    Hmmmph. When did this place go all highbrow and shit?

  12. 12.

    YellowJournalism

    July 3, 2012 at 12:21 am

    Cue the political ads with the slogan: “How will a BJ change your world?”

  13. 13.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    July 3, 2012 at 12:21 am

    Mickey Kaus’ brother started blogging at HuffPo ’cause he wanted people to know that not all Kausses were chuckle headed jack-asses.

  14. 14.

    scav

    July 3, 2012 at 12:22 am

    @suzanne: Tunch provides the Gravity Gravitas.

  15. 15.

    MikeJ

    July 3, 2012 at 12:23 am

    @NotMax: I don’t have any ice cream, but I made a galette.

  16. 16.

    robertdsc-PowerBook

    July 3, 2012 at 12:24 am

    Rosie will solve all the world’s energy problems by finding her way onto a large-size hamster wheel.

  17. 17.

    Yutsano

    July 3, 2012 at 12:24 am

    @YellowJournalism:

    Cue the political ads with the slogan: “How will a BJ change your world?”

    I call this winning!

  18. 18.

    robertdsc-PowerBook

    July 3, 2012 at 12:25 am

    Rosie will solve all the world’s energy problems by finding her way onto a large-size hamster wheel.

  19. 19.

    slag

    July 3, 2012 at 12:26 am

    I’m dubious. Our comments still have yet to alter Kaus’s goat-blowing behavior. And Roberts seems like an even tougher row to hoe in that respect.

  20. 20.

    Jade Jordan

    July 3, 2012 at 12:26 am

    Cole now that we have hit the big time I’m going to need a steady paycheck from BJ.

  21. 21.

    Quarks

    July 3, 2012 at 12:27 am

    It’s all downhill from here.

  22. 22.

    jl

    July 3, 2012 at 12:28 am

    How did DougJ pull this one off?

  23. 23.

    Yutsano

    July 3, 2012 at 12:28 am

    @YellowJournalism:

    Cue the political ads with the slogan: “How will a BJ change your world?”

    I call this winning!

    @MikeJ: WANT!!

    (Are we getting server bombed? Site is barely loading for me.)

  24. 24.

    hrprogressive

    July 3, 2012 at 12:28 am

    Ooh when do we start seeing Balloon Juice ‘headlines’ in political ads?

    That’ll make me all chuffed. Yes. Chuffed.

  25. 25.

    Quarks

    July 3, 2012 at 12:29 am

    It’s all downhill from here.

  26. 26.

    hrprogressive

    July 3, 2012 at 12:29 am

    Ooh when do we start seeing Balloon Juice ‘headlines’ in political ads?

    That’ll make me all chuffed. Yes. Chuffed.

  27. 27.

    JBurke

    July 3, 2012 at 12:29 am

    Nice tag, Cole.

  28. 28.

    slag

    July 3, 2012 at 12:29 am

    FYWP. That is all.

  29. 29.

    Quarks

    July 3, 2012 at 12:30 am

    …and just as I type that, the site crashes on me. I blame the goat sex.

  30. 30.

    MariedeGournay

    July 3, 2012 at 12:30 am

    Huh, I’ve been assuming a witch got a bit of Roberts hair and ‘influenced’ him. Didn’t know blog comment sorcery had gotten so developed.

  31. 31.

    The Dangerman

    July 3, 2012 at 12:31 am

    Odd thing is …

    …as I recall it, any specific reference to Roberts’ was mostly in regards to him flipping, along with Kennedy, from the dark side.

    Now, Scalia, et al, they took some shit.

  32. 32.

    Yutsano

    July 3, 2012 at 12:31 am

    @MariedeGournay: Our powers are many and our number legion.

  33. 33.

    jl

    July 3, 2012 at 12:32 am

    @slag:

    I was going to say that it’s sad when the BJ front posters troll the blog. But this?

    I was going to say that, but it sounds mean, so I won’t.

  34. 34.

    BGinCHI

    July 3, 2012 at 12:32 am

    VICTORY!

    UNLIMITED PET-RELATED CASH!

  35. 35.

    YellowJournalism

    July 3, 2012 at 12:32 am

    The site crashed because it couldn’t handle it’s own greatness.

    That, or Tunch sat on John’s keyboard.

  36. 36.

    Steve in DC

    July 3, 2012 at 12:32 am

    @MariedeGournay:

    If he didn’t join Bill Clinton’s cocaine trafficing thugs would kill him like they did Vince Foster :/

  37. 37.

    pragmatism

    July 3, 2012 at 12:34 am

    His twitter twat was prolly a big hit at the daily caller headquarters couch fort.

  38. 38.

    FlyingToaster

    July 3, 2012 at 12:34 am

    @Joseph Nobles: Or a nightly tray of Italian specialties: Osso Bucco, Cotoletta alla palermitana, Saltimbocca, Bollito Misto, etc.

    Heh.

  39. 39.

    Jebediah

    July 3, 2012 at 12:35 am

    since comments are wishes, here goes…

    ETA: Didn’t work.

  40. 40.

    BGinCHI

    July 3, 2012 at 12:36 am

    When Cole is the best man at Yutsano and Anderson Cooper’s wedding, then we’ve made it.

  41. 41.

    burnspbesq

    July 3, 2012 at 12:38 am

    Kaus’ take is as plausible as any other thinly-sourced explanation for Roberts’ supposed volte-face that we’ve seen so far.

    In other words, it’s all nothing but WAGs.

  42. 42.

    Corner Store Operator

    July 3, 2012 at 12:38 am

    Can somebody explain why he said this? I assume my hero DougJ was somehow involved.

  43. 43.

    Citizen_X

    July 3, 2012 at 12:39 am

    Now, we can truly say, all our most famous goat-blowing journalists recognize the power of Balloon Juice!

  44. 44.

    slag

    July 3, 2012 at 12:40 am

    @jl: It is kind of scary to imagine the exact magnitude of dystopian nightmare a world influenced by BJ comments would unleash. I sincerely wonder if this post was intended as a commentariat insomnia inducer. Cole probably needs company.

  45. 45.

    Yutsano

    July 3, 2012 at 12:41 am

    @BGinCHI: Lily can be ringbearer. Rosie can chase the birds off. And Tunch will of course coordinate.

  46. 46.

    burnspbesq

    July 3, 2012 at 12:42 am

    Some people just can’t leave well enough alone.

    It occurred to me that while we have been sticking knitting needles in each other’s eyes over competing theories of judging, there have been no references to Greenwald. Being the foolishly curious person I am, I went and took a look.

    That was a very bad idea.

    http://www.salon.com/2012/07/02/dianne_feinstein_targets_press_freedom/

  47. 47.

    AnotherBruce

    July 3, 2012 at 12:43 am

    Apparently Mickey has found the one true happiness goat, this is pretty funny.

  48. 48.

    Linnaeus

    July 3, 2012 at 12:43 am

    As soon as I saw that this was a tweet from Kaus, I immediately sought to make a comment with reference to oral sex and goats. But John, astute man that he is, made sure to refer to goat sex. And that made me spit out my cabernet. Well done.

  49. 49.

    Yutsano

    July 3, 2012 at 12:45 am

    @burnspbesq: Oh Lawd. He still thinks Julian is just dreamy. I shudder to think his opinion of Paul Ryan.

    @BGinCHI: Good. I have worse tortures for you.

  50. 50.

    BGinCHI

    July 3, 2012 at 12:45 am

    @Yutsano: This will give me and DougJ a chance to play a gig with our new band, the Grassy Knoll Cowards.

    mistermix on the squeezebox.

    ABL on spicy lead vocals.

    And no, we can’t play “Candle in the Wind.”

  51. 51.

    fasteddie9318

    July 3, 2012 at 12:47 am

    Um, OK, how to capitalize on this…

    I tell you this: unless John Roberts drives to Mickey Kaus’ house, stuffs Mickey in the trunk of his car, and then drives that car to an uninhabited region of Mexico where both he and Mickey have to forage for survival for the rest of their lives, then he’s a total piece of shit. Am I doing it right?

  52. 52.

    justdale

    July 3, 2012 at 12:49 am

    @robertdsc-PowerBook:
    What’s funny is that in the early days of Rosie, I kept thinking John would be well served by adding something like this to his BBQ. Rosie gets exercise, John and Lily get perfectly done meat, and Tunch gets a can of tuna. Tunch always gets a can of tuna.

  53. 53.

    burnspbesq

    July 3, 2012 at 12:49 am

    @BGinCHI:

    FREE BIRD!

  54. 54.

    KG

    July 3, 2012 at 12:50 am

    @slag: you say “dystopian nightmare” like it’s a bad thing…

  55. 55.

    chrismealy

    July 3, 2012 at 12:50 am

    Kaus! I totally forgot that guy existed! I thought he retired or something.

  56. 56.

    BGinCHI

    July 3, 2012 at 12:52 am

    @burnspbesq: Only as an encore.

  57. 57.

    AnotherBruce

    July 3, 2012 at 12:52 am

    @fasteddie9318: Naa, you left out the goat sex. Maybe he eats the goat at the end of the scene.

  58. 58.

    YellowJournalism

    July 3, 2012 at 12:53 am

    @burnspbesq: You beat me to it! Damn you!

  59. 59.

    Geoduck

    July 3, 2012 at 12:53 am

    @fasteddie9318: And take Scalia and Thomas with them.

  60. 60.

    burnspbesq

    July 3, 2012 at 12:57 am

    @Yutsano:

    The thing is, I’m mostly in agreement with him. Except for the few narrow exceptions already enshrined in the case law, once the media get their hands on shit, they should be able to publish it. “Congress shall make no law” means what it appears to mean. And the Espionage Act probably is unconstitutionally vague.

    The problem is that Greenwald doesn’t seem the least bit interested in the possibility that Assange committed a crime to get the stuff from Manning, whether that crime might be conspiracy or aiding and abetting a violation of 18 USC 641. And that’s where I part company with him. There should be an investigation. If it leads nowhere, fine. But simply being a self-proclaimed media actor isn’t a Get Out of Jail Free card.

  61. 61.

    jl

    July 3, 2012 at 12:59 am

    @slag:

    I think Kaus’ commenter schtick is a ruse. He does not care about us.

    Cole has mentioned retiring up the holler with goats and generators often enough to trip some alert thingee.

    Cole’s move now, and it may be in the post itself. Coded.

    Let us wile away some time yelling at each other about what Cole really said in this post, and to whom.

  62. 62.

    JordanRules

    July 3, 2012 at 1:02 am

    Magnificent. Damn near all the comments are so worthy. Bless you hologram Tupac.

  63. 63.

    PeakVT

    July 3, 2012 at 1:09 am

    Would it be irresponsible to speculate what Kaus’ motive is? It would be irresponsible not to!

    Though, for the life of me, I can’t see how dropping a BJ reference would impress a goat.

  64. 64.

    USSC Chief Justice John Roberts

    July 3, 2012 at 1:10 am

    Fuck all of you!

  65. 65.

    trollhattan

    July 3, 2012 at 1:14 am

    @chrismealy:

    Take the following for what it’s worth on goat boy’s mighty powers.

    Running in the primary against Boxer he got 123k votes.
    Orly Taitz running in the primary against Feinstein got 152k votes.

    Being completely batshit has its rewards.

  66. 66.

    Jon

    July 3, 2012 at 1:16 am

    Fuck Mickey Kaus. Fuck his mom. Fuck his dog.

  67. 67.

    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    July 3, 2012 at 1:20 am

    s.o.s.

    its nice when people notice other people being right. whether its a matter of consequence or not.

    btw, the site is up to 74 million hits? didn’t it just pass 50 mill not too long ago?

  68. 68.

    amk

    July 3, 2012 at 1:20 am

    yay, our own 15 minutes of 140 words of fame.

    who the fuck is this fucker anyway ?

  69. 69.

    PeakVT

    July 3, 2012 at 1:25 am

    @amk: Ex-Even-The-New-Republic “editor”.

  70. 70.

    AkaDad

    July 3, 2012 at 1:26 am

    Balloon Juice: The only place on the internet where you can discuss politics and goat sex at the same time.

    And that’s why I love you guyz.

  71. 71.

    burnspbesq

    July 3, 2012 at 1:27 am

    Oddly enough, the $500 billion number that Republicans are tossing around as the supposed magnitude of the tax increase under Obamacare is … a lie.

    According to Grover Norquist’s minions, the combined cost of the individual and employer mandates over the ten-year period beginning in 2014 is $65 billion.

    http://www.aei.org/files/2012/06/11/-tax-hikes-in-ppaca-and-the-associated-reconciliation-act_11241728078.pdf

    The total cost of every revenue-raiser in the bill, including the stuff that is only tangentially related to health care, is around $440 billion.

    https://www.jct.gov/publications.html?func=download&id=3672&chk=3672&no_html=1

  72. 72.

    piratedan

    July 3, 2012 at 1:30 am

    almost makes me feel like some of the big league scouts still scour the minor leagues lookin for talent. After all, if a complete douchebag like Brooks or McArdle can be elevated to give their completely fabricated takes on America or the political process be it Pink Himalayan salt or Burkean bells, why not one of us? or more likely Kay, since we all agree that she’s insightful, hard working and damn near relevant with every post which is more than you can say most of the folks who get paid to offer an opinion.

  73. 73.

    David Koch

    July 3, 2012 at 1:30 am

    I think Roberts switched his vote because he was getting beat up by the comments by David Koch at Balloon Juice.

    /fixed.

    Yes. I will take all the credit for saving ACA.

  74. 74.

    Kristine

    July 3, 2012 at 1:32 am

    who knows, your comment to this thread may change history.

    I’m guessing someone may have already suggested it, but this begs to be added to the tagline collection.

  75. 75.

    suzanne

    July 3, 2012 at 1:35 am

    I watched America’s Got Talent tonight (don’t judge), and Howard Stern discussed the Dog on Car incident. I’m idly wondering how many people heard about that story for the first time because of him tonight.

  76. 76.

    Roger Moore

    July 3, 2012 at 1:39 am

    @burnspbesq:

    But simply being a self-proclaimed media actor isn’t a Get Out of Jail Free card.

    Good luck convincing a media figure like Greenwald of that.

  77. 77.

    Roger Moore

    July 3, 2012 at 1:44 am

    @Jon:

    Fuck Mickey Kaus. Fuck his mom. Fuck his dog.

    Fuck his goat. But only if you’re interested in a threesome with Mickey.

  78. 78.

    JWL

    July 3, 2012 at 1:56 am

    Former Commander Kos has been relocated to a re-education camp.

    Long live Commander Cole.

  79. 79.

    ruemara

    July 3, 2012 at 2:11 am

    This is what I miss when I actually spend my time at work…doing work. A chance to tweet back to Kaus that Roberts was only concerned with being referenced by a known goat-blower.

  80. 80.

    dance around in your bones

    July 3, 2012 at 2:14 am

    I just feel sorry for those poor lost souls who don’t read or comment on Balloon Juice.

    ::::sniff::::

  81. 81.

    Triassic Sands

    July 3, 2012 at 2:16 am

    That should be “Mickey Maus,” shouldn’t it?

    When my ancestors entered the US, there is reason to believe that the bureaucrat doing their paperwork either misread an “e” as an “i,” because of a “Buttle/Tuttle-like” smudge or accidentally dotted the “e,” which he also carelessly rendered closed, thus changing forever the spelling of our last name.

    I suspect the same must have somehow happened to Mickey Maus (the German spelling of Mouse). Maus fits him so much better.

  82. 82.

    LosGatosCA

    July 3, 2012 at 2:36 am

    Once in a great while even a blind goat blowing squirrel finds the nut of truth, eh.

  83. 83.

    JGabriel, Statist Minded Ideologue of the Left

    July 3, 2012 at 2:55 am

    Not bad. I didn’t think Kaus had any snark that good left in him.

    .

  84. 84.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    July 3, 2012 at 2:59 am

    Well since I’m here I’m going to accomplish nothing. If I wasn’t here, I’d probably accomplish something. Look at the bright side though! Since Kaus is too stupid to walk, chew bubble gum and keep breathing at the same time, you know that some goats were safe for a few minutes while he was distracted by John and the Gang.

    It’s a tough job here but we’re doing it for the goats.

    @JWL:

    Commander Cole and his Lost Planet Balloon Juicers.

  85. 85.

    Chris Grrr™

    July 3, 2012 at 3:51 am

    @Joshua Norton: Yeah, I liked BJ a lot better before it went mainstream.

  86. 86.

    David Koch

    July 3, 2012 at 3:52 am

    But Roberts pays attention to media coverage.[…] [H}e also is sensitive to how the court is perceived by the public.

    I knew it! I knew it!

    I knew my unrelenting pressure would succeed!

  87. 87.

    TenguPhule

    July 3, 2012 at 4:13 am

    We are all DougJ.

  88. 88.

    TenguPhule

    July 3, 2012 at 4:16 am

    Balloon Juice: The only place on the internet where you can discuss politics and goat sex at the same time.

    To be fair, with teabaggers, its one and the same. With a few sheep for variety.

  89. 89.

    Justice Clarence Thomas

    July 3, 2012 at 4:19 am

    @USSC Chief Justice John Roberts:
    No, fuck you seizure man..If you had just been watching Hot Babes With Whips and Chains like the four of us were, instead of Balloon Juice, you would have voted in overturning this Democrat law. My Ginnie’s all upset. If you don’t apologize to her, well, she’ll never forget and you just never know when she’ll call you demanding the apology. She’s not the only one, Big Tony and Little Tony are just about ready to go all Mafia on you.

  90. 90.

    Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn

    July 3, 2012 at 4:33 am

    This is what I love about America — that any crank with access to the internets can start a FYWP blog and get his-/her-/itself tweeted about by some whosey-whatsy regarding a landmark SCOTUS decision.

    Brings a tear to me eye, verily it does.

  91. 91.

    danielx

    July 3, 2012 at 5:06 am

    Fuck his goat. But only if you’re interested in a threesome with Mickey.

    Thanks loads. If only there was a way to drive an icepick into my mind’s eye. It’s going to take major Sauza Gold to remove that particular image.

  92. 92.

    arguingwithsignposts

    July 3, 2012 at 5:07 am

    Well done. That’s what UNLIMITED TUNCH CASH will do for you. VICTORY!

  93. 93.

    Frankensteinbeck

    July 3, 2012 at 5:14 am

    Wow. I’ve never used the bully pulpit before. I’m heady with power!

  94. 94.

    arguingwithsignposts

    July 3, 2012 at 5:18 am

    @BGinCHI: have to stay up pretty late to get a punchline against BGinCHI. sigh.

  95. 95.

    Valdivia

    July 3, 2012 at 6:16 am

    I am sad I went to sleep early for once and missed all the fun.

    also, I hope to be invited to Yutsano’s wedding and the performance of the BGinChi band. I love Freebird.

  96. 96.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    July 3, 2012 at 7:07 am

    In honor of Balloon Juice’s new-found importance I’m classing up my screen name.

  97. 97.

    RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist

    July 3, 2012 at 7:15 am

    @suzanne:

    I watched America’s Got Talent tonight (don’t judge), and Howard Stern discussed the Dog on Car incident. I’m idly wondering how many people heard about that story for the first time because of him tonight.

    Gail Collins is batting a thousand mentioning Seamus in every column where she talks about Romney. I know what she’s up to and I approve.

  98. 98.

    brantl

    July 3, 2012 at 7:21 am

    What could I say that would cause Mickey Kauss to get plastic surgery? Cause if that was my picture, I’d shave my dogs butt, draw a smiley face on it in magic marker, and use a picture of that, instead of the one he’s using now.

  99. 99.

    Lee

    July 3, 2012 at 7:21 am

    ‘Goat Sex’ for the tag?

    really?

  100. 100.

    RedKitten

    July 3, 2012 at 7:31 am

    Wow, ACA passed AND a global expansion of neonatal care? The power, it is heady!

  101. 101.

    Frankensteinbeck

    July 3, 2012 at 7:37 am

    @Lee:
    I take it you’re not familiar with all internet traditions? Kaus published some horrible article about Obama explaining that it was important to discuss a fringe, insulting rumor. After all, someone had brought it up, so it had to be addressed. The local response was that it was important to discuss a rumor that Mickey Klaus blows goats. After all, someone had brought it up, so it had to be addressed. It should be in the lexicon, but I can’t seem to find it.

    It must be fair to keep discussing this issue, since to this day Klaus has not publicly denied blowing goats, or produced any evidence that he hasn’t.

  102. 102.

    Omnes Omnibus

    July 3, 2012 at 7:47 am

    @Frankensteinbeck: It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

  103. 103.

    Mino

    July 3, 2012 at 7:57 am

    I sincerely hope I did my little part in making him fearful, that corporatist.

  104. 104.

    SRW1

    July 3, 2012 at 8:55 am

    Poor Mickey is feeling neglected?!

  105. 105.

    aretino

    July 3, 2012 at 9:00 am

    @burnspbesq: In other words, it’s all nothing but WAGs.

    I don’t get it. Whose wife and whose girlfriend?

  106. 106.

    Ksmiami

    July 3, 2012 at 9:02 am

    It’s tunch’s world- we just cat blog in it. Fear the tunch’s awesome powers

  107. 107.

    Ash Can

    July 3, 2012 at 9:06 am

    Well, if a tweet by Mickey Kaus means we’ve arrived, I have to ask, arrived where? And is it anywhere we want to be?

    @burnspbesq: Oh, FFS. And you’re the one who always bitches about how everyone should ignore Megan McArdle. Were you shitfaced last night or something?

    @Justice Clarence Thomas: Wow, Clarence, you sure must be pissed. That’s more than you’ve said in the last 5 years.

  108. 108.

    different-church-lady

    July 3, 2012 at 9:08 am

    Ooh ooh! Can I solve world hunger? Can I? Can I?

  109. 109.

    different-church-lady

    July 3, 2012 at 9:09 am

    @Arclite:

    Heh, I liked reading, “who knows, your comment to this thread may change history.” and right under that seeing “No Comments”

    And you had to go and ruin it.

  110. 110.

    different-church-lady

    July 3, 2012 at 9:10 am

    @suzanne:

    I watched America’s Got Talent tonight (don’t judge)…

    I see what you did there. Even if you don’t.

  111. 111.

    different-church-lady

    July 3, 2012 at 9:15 am

    @burnspbesq:

    FREE BIRD!

    I knew a band who used to get back at audience member who shouted “Freebird!” as a joke by… actually playing Freebird.

  112. 112.

    dance around in your bones

    July 3, 2012 at 9:24 am

    ♫ ♬ I could rule the world, if I could only get the parts ♫ ♬

  113. 113.

    Villago Delenda Est

    July 3, 2012 at 9:28 am

    This is one epic thread!

  114. 114.

    Coco Laboy

    July 3, 2012 at 9:36 am

    @RedKitten: Red Kitten while you’re at it can you get rid of Harper too? Thanks

  115. 115.

    Punchy

    July 3, 2012 at 9:44 am

    /quickly googles “trenchant”…..

  116. 116.

    Lee

    July 3, 2012 at 9:52 am

    @Frankensteinbeck: Thanks,

    I must have been on vacation that week.

    I usually keep up with all of the internet traditions ;)

  117. 117.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    July 3, 2012 at 9:54 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I wish there was a Limbaugh who do the same thing.

  118. 118.

    beergoggles

    July 3, 2012 at 10:08 am

    I think we made a mistake in the past associating Kaus with ‘goat sex’. It should have been ‘goatse’.

  119. 119.

    dslak

    July 3, 2012 at 10:10 am

    @Frankensteinbeck: It was about Kaus’s poor approach to evidence-gathering when rumors of John Edwards and Rielle Hunter were first percolating.

    According to Kaus, Edwards was responsible for people suspecting he had carried on an affair with Hunter because Edwards’s denials were both too vague and too specifice. In which case, it was completely reasonable to believe the rumors, despite denials by both parties involved, and a failure to turn up evidence on the part of any news organization other than The Enquirer.

    Since, this one time, The Enquirer happened to be right, Kaus probably thinks this vindicates his argument for treating rumors as irrefutable.

  120. 120.

    Violet

    July 3, 2012 at 10:40 am

    Did you sic Rosie on Mickey Kaus to make him say that? Or maybe that’s why John Roberts changed his vote.

  121. 121.

    piratedan

    July 3, 2012 at 10:49 am

    @RedKitten: #100 THAT’S HEDLEY!

  122. 122.

    danimal

    July 3, 2012 at 11:30 am

    I used to like this blog before it went all mainstream and sucked up to goat-blowers and the like.

    SELLOUTS!!!

  123. 123.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    July 3, 2012 at 12:25 pm

    WTF? No mention of my awesome prognostication abilities?

    There will be no peace in this world until this oversight is addressed!

  124. 124.

    BruceFromOhio

    July 3, 2012 at 12:57 pm

    Love the tag for this post. World-changing, clocking in at ….

  125. 125.

    Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)

    July 3, 2012 at 1:08 pm

    God damn, that might be the most awe-inspiringly stupid thing I’ve ever seen. And I lived through the George W. Bush administration.

  126. 126.

    srv

    July 3, 2012 at 1:16 pm

    John Roberts was appointed about the same time Darrel disappeared.

    Just saying.

  127. 127.

    pythagoras frog

    July 3, 2012 at 1:45 pm

    lol goat sex!

  128. 128.

    Jebediah, The Cornstarch of the Comment Threads

    July 3, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    @RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist:

    In honor of Balloon Juice’s new-found importance I’m classing up my screen name.

    Good idea. I think I’ll take a shot at that myself.

  129. 129.

    Tonal Crow

    July 3, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    Double double GOP in trouble:
    Liars burn in bullshit bubble!

  130. 130.

    Justice Anthony "Swingvote" Kennedy

    July 3, 2012 at 2:13 pm

    @USSC Chief Justice John Roberts:

    Fuck all of you!

    So you think you’re going to become the new swinger on the Court? No way I’m giving up all that attention and ass-kissing. Back off, “Chief,” or I promise you they won’t ever find your body.

  131. 131.

    mclaren

    July 3, 2012 at 7:15 pm

    SOON the world will KNOW what POWER WE POSSESS!!!!!!!

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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