• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

An almost top 10,000 blog!

T R E 4 5 O N

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

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Second rate reporter says what?

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

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

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

Mobile Menu

  • Seattle Meet-up Post
  • 2025 Activism
  • Targeted Political Fundraising
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2025 Activism
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Open Threads / Open thread

Open thread

by DougJ|  August 29, 20122:47 pm| 81 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Readership Capture

FacebookTweetEmail

What are all you dominant bucks up to today?

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « Speaking of Minority Outreach
Next Post: What Did We Do To Deserve This Present? »

Reader Interactions

81Comments

  1. 1.

    Violet

    August 29, 2012 at 2:49 pm

    One doctor’s visit down, one more to go. Busy doctor day.

  2. 2.

    Ann Rynd

    August 29, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    Chugging a NYC-double-size testosterone shake to get in shape for the dem convention. Practicing fist pumps.

  3. 3.

    Amir Khalid

    August 29, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    This might be of interest to the Juicitariat: Yahoo news has fired Washington DC bureau chief David Chalian for saying Mitt doesn’t care about black people suffering.

  4. 4.

    thruppence

    August 29, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    General house maintenance, trying to figure out WordPress, and setting up a ride for my wife from Newark EWR to Ossining in Westchester. Any advice?

  5. 5.

    LanceThruster

    August 29, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    I’m moseying over to the food plot set out for our office left over from the training conferences. It’s all fair game, no?

  6. 6.

    Anoniminous

    August 29, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    Trying to decide if the GOP Convention last night was loathsome:

    Causing hatred or disgust; repulsive: “this loathsome little swine”

    or despicable:

    Deserving hatred and contempt

  7. 7.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    August 29, 2012 at 2:57 pm

    @thruppence:

    “…setting up a ride for my wife from Newark EWR to Ossining in Westchester. Any advice?”

    I always use Boston Coach for business out east.

  8. 8.

    lamh35

    August 29, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    just finished watching Godzilla and now watching Shrek 2

  9. 9.

    ? Martin

    August 29, 2012 at 2:58 pm

    @thruppence: Usually rides to Ossining are arranged on your behalf.

  10. 10.

    SatanicPanic

    August 29, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    @Amir Khalid: He’s just speaking the truth, why is Yahoo insisting on being all PC? Yahoo is taking away his First Amendment rights.

  11. 11.

    PurpleGirl

    August 29, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    @thruppence: Take the bus from the airport into Manhattan (Grand Central area) and get MetroNorth to Ossining.

    ETA: Sorry, I forget the name of the bus line but I used to take it all the time when I met a friend at Newark for dinner when he was in on business.

  12. 12.

    taylormattd

    August 29, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    I’m considering going out and fathering a bunch of sons (definitely not daughters, because that is super gay)

  13. 13.

    ? Martin

    August 29, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    @LanceThruster: Indeed. My rule of thumb is as an employee, any food paid for by my employer is fair game. That’s almost never the employers intention, mind you.

  14. 14.

    trollhattan

    August 29, 2012 at 3:01 pm

    What are all you dominant bucks up to today?

    Hey, look, somebody scattered all this beer under this big tree….

  15. 15.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    August 29, 2012 at 3:02 pm

    Trying to remotely fix a computer in another office that got dorked after a massive update push yesterday.

  16. 16.

    pragmatism

    August 29, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    trolling teh facebooks because i have writer’s block.

  17. 17.

    eric

    August 29, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    @taylormattd: pro tip: if you are going to speak macho, you are going to “sire” not “father” children. gays can be fathers too, but they cant sire, or so I am told by the manly gary bauer.

  18. 18.

    General Stuck

    August 29, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    We lose some and we win some, this time we won one.

    Federal Judge Will Permanently Remove Florida Voter Registration Restrictions

  19. 19.

    beltane

    August 29, 2012 at 3:05 pm

    @Anoniminous: Let’s just say it was despicably loathsome and leave it at that.

  20. 20.

    taylormattd

    August 29, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    @eric: FOCK. I knew I’d do it wrong.

  21. 21.

    uila

    August 29, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    Savoring this story, wondering if Betty has a 150-ft yacht in the Cayman Islands.

  22. 22.

    Merryl

    August 29, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    Avoiding debugging my code by skimming blogs, reading a recent paper that cites mine (woohoo, 9 citations in 3 years), and looking forward to the end of the work day so I can go home and play Guild Wars 2 >.>

  23. 23.

    Anoniminous

    August 29, 2012 at 3:08 pm

    @beltane:

    I’m good with that.

    And with that, back to work.

  24. 24.

    Josie

    August 29, 2012 at 3:09 pm

    @eric: I’m sorry, but the use of “manly” and “gary bauer” in the same sentence is grammatically incorrect.

  25. 25.

    Getsmartin

    August 29, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    Patiently waiting for this effin’ hurricane to clear out of the area. We’re high and dry, but sans power…

  26. 26.

    Ann Rynd

    August 29, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    @Anoniminous: Why quibble? Both.
    Althought I thought Ann ‘s red dress worked. Will look good when she turns into a pillar of salt.

  27. 27.

    thruppence

    August 29, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    @PurpleGirl: That’s what her brother suggested (who lives there but can’t pick her up) but she won’t be getting in until 10 pm after flying from Ireland and expects to be exhausted. Business limos seem too expensive for us. I’m currently scouring Craigslist and trying to weed out the dodgy ones…

  28. 28.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    August 29, 2012 at 3:13 pm

    As if further proof were needed that Romney is a huge asshole.

    Romney opens hurricane remarks with a joke: “I appreciate this invitation to join you on dry land this afternoon.”

  29. 29.

    Professor

    August 29, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    Please will somebody reassure me that Mitt Romney will NOT get off scotfree for not releasing his ten-year tax filings/returns?

  30. 30.

    Brachiator

    August 29, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    What the hey? The Miles Davis version of Salt Peanuts, and not Dizzy Gillespie with Charlie Parker

    Are you high?

    What are all you dominant bucks up to today?

    Making notes related to a massive project I’ve got going later instead of digging in.

    Been catching up on Amazon Prime Instant Videos. Watched Three Days of the Condor. Much still holds up, although the love scene between Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway probably could never be included in a remake since it is clearly too rapey by contemporary standards. It was rapey even back in 1975.

    Next up is Arsenic and Old Lace. Have never seen the entire movie.

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne

    August 29, 2012 at 3:18 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    I forgive Kanye West many of his sins of hubris and arrogance just for the pants-pissing expression on Mike Meyers’ face when West went off on his “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” rant on national television.

    ETA: Not that it has anything to do with your post, but “Republicans don’t care about black people” always makes me think of that. And laugh.

  32. 32.

    Harlan T. Fescue

    August 29, 2012 at 3:18 pm

    As a Romney/Ryan “Freedom Trebuchet”-level donor, my time during the convention is, as you can imagine, quite occupied with contributing additional funds to the campaign and making sure that none of the common convention attendees are able to gain access to the High Donors Suite. But I am very excited to announce that tomorrow evening, around the time of Mr. Romney’s acceptance speech, we may be able to offer the world-premiere of his very own children’s book, written and illustrated by Mr. Romney himself. It will demonstrate conclusively that a true American leader can pen a children’s book far superior to the effort of the Kenyan fake-president currently occupying Our White House. I will update this liberal fascist forum with more information when I can.

  33. 33.

    Hill Dweller

    August 29, 2012 at 3:18 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt: While I’m thrilled Willard demonstrated his trademark tone deafness again, why was he giving hurricane remarks in the first place?

  34. 34.

    Mnemosyne

    August 29, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    @Brachiator:

    Next up is Arsenic and Old Lace. Have never seen the entire movie.

    It’s okay — not my favorite Cary Grant. Just keep the subtext in mind, which is that Grant has just gotten married and is desperately trying to get some time away from his family so he can finally have sex with his wife.

    It’s text in the stage play, but they had to make it essentially subliminal in the movie due to censorship.

  35. 35.

    quannlace

    August 29, 2012 at 3:22 pm

    Read about how Rick Santorum picked a metaphor for his speech (‘hands’) and drove it into the ground. The examples quoted were pretty hilarious.

  36. 36.

    lamh35

    August 29, 2012 at 3:23 pm

    Hmmm, so it’s just personal “biases” holding Latino back from supporting GOP? Not GOP policies and anti-immigration antics and rhetorics. Thanks for clearing that up Ann.

    “Ann Romney Woos Hispanic Voters, Urging They Get Past ‘Their Biases’”
    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/ann-romney-switches-focus-from-wooing-women-to-hispanic-voters/

    That right there folks, Mitt’s secret weapon…

  37. 37.

    wrb

    August 29, 2012 at 3:24 pm

    Worth a read:

    Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital

  38. 38.

    Calouste

    August 29, 2012 at 3:24 pm

    @Professor:

    Last time I looked IOKIYAR is still the 28th Amendment to the US Constitution, so the media won’t do it.

    Although I do expect to hear from Harry Reid again once the conventions are out of the way and there is some space.

  39. 39.

    quannlace

    August 29, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    Romney opens hurricane remarks with a joke: “I appreciate this invitation to join you on dry land this afternoon.”

    Har-Dee-Har-Har. Bet that lady at MSNBC, who just lost her New Orleans home to floods is gonna find that hilarious.

  40. 40.

    Suffern ACE

    August 29, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    Me? I’m thinking about the plight of the emus and emu farmers in India now that the emu bubble has burst. And I have a fantasy football draft in a few hours that I am unprepared for. In other words, first world concerns.

  41. 41.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    August 29, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    Well, it’s grilled T-bone steak right after I pick up my new Cadillac paid for by George Soros and Barry Obama.

  42. 42.

    trollhattan

    August 29, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    @Litlebritdifrnt:
    And just to show Willard who’s who, Yahoo fires journalist who claimed he doesn’t care about black folks.

    No, really, Yahoo has “journalists.”

    http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08/david-chalian-fired-from-yahoo-over-romney-black-people-gaffe.html

  43. 43.

    Cassidy

    August 29, 2012 at 3:34 pm

    Just got the email. I start the Firefighter Academy next week.

  44. 44.

    Merryl

    August 29, 2012 at 3:36 pm

    @Cassidy: Congratulations! Urban firefighting, or forest fires?

  45. 45.

    Cassidy

    August 29, 2012 at 3:40 pm

    @Merryl: Urban, but being Florida, I imagine there is a little bit of both. I’m already an EMT, so after this I am hirable in the state of Florida.

  46. 46.

    Yutsano

    August 29, 2012 at 3:40 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Oppression! First Amendment! FREDUMB!!

    And another enterprising journalist becomes a candidate for wingnut welfare.

  47. 47.

    Linnaeus

    August 29, 2012 at 3:43 pm

    I’m struggling with Microsoft Visio. I really, really do not like using it.

  48. 48.

    Brachiator

    August 29, 2012 at 3:44 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    RE: Next up is Arsenic and Old Lace. Have never seen the entire movie.

    It’s okay—not my favorite Cary Grant.

    My favorite Cary Grant film is probably Holiday. Wish I could track down the 1930 version with Ann Harding and Mary Astor.

    But I am mainly burning through Amazon Prime Instant Freebies, because I am just that cheap. Holiday is not available as a free streaming video. So, since no Holiday, I will probably go with My Man Godfrey next. I’ve seen this one before, but I’m in a Powell and Lombard state of mind.

    From having seen the first third of Arsenic, I get the subtext thing. Don’t know if Mortimer Brewster was initially anti-marriage in the original play, but this would add to the sex farce aspect of the thing.

  49. 49.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 29, 2012 at 3:48 pm

    @Cassidy: Good for you.

  50. 50.

    Yutsano

    August 29, 2012 at 3:52 pm

    @Cassidy: OMEDETO GOZAIMASU!!

    Oh and FYWP.

  51. 51.

    ? Martin

    August 29, 2012 at 3:54 pm

    @Cassidy: Impossible. Government never created a single job.

    And congrats. Have a lot of firefighters named Cassidy in the family.

  52. 52.

    Brachiator

    August 29, 2012 at 3:54 pm

    @lamh35:

    “Ann Romney Woos Hispanic Voters, Urging They Get Past ‘Their Biases’”

    Ann is offering Latino voters a deal. Mitt will tie them to the top of his car and personally drive them out of the country after they vote for him. Doesn’t matter that they are legal citizens. They’re the first to be outsourced.

  53. 53.

    Linda Featheringill

    August 29, 2012 at 3:55 pm

    @Harlan T. Fescue:

    dougie! Howya doing?

  54. 54.

    Raven

    August 29, 2012 at 3:55 pm

    @Cassidy: My best pal in the Nam ended up a San Francisco firefighter for 20 years. He is currently sparkin up on the big island.

  55. 55.

    Cassidy

    August 29, 2012 at 3:57 pm

    @? Martin: Well, getting a job will be different, but I’m thinking that FF hiring will pick up soon. The good thing is I can start applying as soon as I’m done. Paramedic comes next.

  56. 56.

    Amir Khalid

    August 29, 2012 at 3:58 pm

    @lamh35:
    “If you people knew better, you’d be voting for my Mitt.” Yes, Ann is certainly showing the way to win over the Hispanic community. I think they call this the “catching flies with vinegar” gambit.

  57. 57.

    pragmatism

    August 29, 2012 at 3:58 pm

    @Cassidy: ZOMG FIREFIGHTERS BAD BECAUSE OF PENSIONS UNLESS YOU ARE SAVING A RICH NEIGHBORHOOD

  58. 58.

    Amir Khalid

    August 29, 2012 at 4:02 pm

    @Yutsano:
    Idle question: Was there any white backlash back when Michael Jackson released They Don’t Really Care About Us?

  59. 59.

    Linda Featheringill

    August 29, 2012 at 4:06 pm

    @lamh35:

    Ann Romney and the Latino community:

    Is that the best they can do? “If you know what’s good for you, you’ll vote my way. Quit being so biased and wake up!”

    Very seductive argument, I must say.

    BTW lamh: Everybody safe and dry?

  60. 60.

    Soonergrunt

    August 29, 2012 at 4:08 pm

    @comrade scott’s agenda of rage: I LOVE doing that!!!

  61. 61.

    Raven

    August 29, 2012 at 4:21 pm

    @Soonergrunt: My office suite crashed after I installed Lion and some dude in Dehli remotely fixed it today. It was a trip watching him delete all those damn files getting it ready for the reinstall.

  62. 62.

    Aet

    August 29, 2012 at 4:21 pm

    http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/29/opinion/kaur-sikh-leads-prayer-rnc/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

    “The Republican National Convention will make history Wednesday night. Ishwar Singh, wearing a turban and beard, will take the stage and lead thousands of conservatives in prayer. ”

    The optimist in me hopes that this will be a case of genuine social progress. The pessimist is expecting the worst, in a genuinely spectacular manner. The realist wants me to go buy popcorn. The atheist is shaking his head at a religious invocation at a political event. The agnostic can’t figure out if he agrees with the optimist or the pessimist.

  63. 63.

    Raven

    August 29, 2012 at 4:23 pm

    @Aet: And the nihilist?

  64. 64.

    lamh35

    August 29, 2012 at 4:32 pm

    @Linda Featheringill: yep, my fam is safe and dry. My mom, my sisters and my younger cousins are all out of the city. Some of my older fam are still in NOLA, but they are so far safe and sound, but without electricity. Still way better than situation in Plaquemines.

  65. 65.

    Soonergrunt

    August 29, 2012 at 4:42 pm

    @Raven: What’s shocking to me about that story is that you knew he was in Dehli. Normally those guys go to all sorts of extremes, sometimes pretty comical, to make you think they’re in the states.

  66. 66.

    The Fat Kate Middleton

    August 29, 2012 at 4:43 pm

    @Raven:

    And the nihilist?

    He’s got nuthin’.

  67. 67.

    zzyzx

    August 29, 2012 at 4:45 pm

    Hey Doug. I assume you have a bunch of accounts at Red State and Free Republic and maybe even Rapture Ready or something. Post a link to this article from Mitt’s sister and freak them all out. http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-election/jane-romney-my-brother-won-t-ban-abortion-20120829

    Mitt Romney would never make abortions illegal as president, Jane Romney said when National Journal asked her about the subject after a “Women for Mitt” event. “He’s not going to be touching any of that,” she said. “It’s not his focus.”

    Sure would be sad if they all sat home, wouldn’t it. It’s not like we’re going to buy that, but they just might.

  68. 68.

    Phylllis

    August 29, 2012 at 4:45 pm

    Watching Moonstruck and psyching myself up to go back to zumba class tonight after two weeks away.

  69. 69.

    Elizabelle

    August 29, 2012 at 4:46 pm

    @Cassidy:

    Wonderful news. Congrats!!

  70. 70.

    gogol's wife

    August 29, 2012 at 4:47 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    I have been in love with Cary Grant since I was 5 years old, but I could not watch that movie. It was getting on my nerves terribly after about 15 minutes. The whole thing with the cousin who thought he was Teddy Roosevelt? Really tiresome.

  71. 71.

    Elizabelle

    August 29, 2012 at 4:48 pm

    @wrb:

    Amazing, the timing on the Rolling Stone article.

  72. 72.

    Harlan T. Fescue

    August 29, 2012 at 4:59 pm

    @zzyzx: As a Romney/Ryan “Freedom Balrog”-level donor, I would echo what Mr. Romney’s sister is saying here. Our intention is not to make abortion illegal; I mean, for Pete’s sake, who among us hasn’t needed a quick, clean wiping of the slate for a wayward niece or a wife who’s been a little too familiar with the help? We simply seek to make the procedure geographically and financially nonviable for women who are beneath a Certain Dignity, so that they might stop debasing themselves as harlots and embrace a moral lifestyle.

  73. 73.

    lamh35

    August 29, 2012 at 5:06 pm

    OT, but can we say Condeleeza Rice just got “Katie Couric-ed” by Norah O’Donnell in an interview.

    Condi Rice Can’t Name A Specific Obama Foreign Policy Failure

    Today on CBS’s morning show, former Bush administration Secretary of State and top Mitt Romney surrogate Condoleezza Rice could not offer any specific foreign policy failures made by President Obama. Romney’s allies, led by Rice and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), are expected to attack Obama on national security grounds tonight in at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

    But when asked to offer specifics this morning on CBS, all Rice could come up with was some vague attack on Obama’s Syria policy, which, host Norah O’Donnell noted, the president himself might agree with…

  74. 74.

    Yutsano

    August 29, 2012 at 5:41 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Not as I recall, but maybe someone remembers something I don’t.

    PS: There is this freaky high bridge in one of Malaysia’s national forests that’s like 3000 meters in the air. I can’t recall the name but I think I wanna gothere. My extreme acrophobia notwithsanding. :)

  75. 75.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    August 29, 2012 at 5:58 pm

    I’m nearly done assembling the 2-stroke retrofit for my s/o’s mountain bike. 150mpg, 2.65bhp, top speed 35mph. heh.

    I made several modifications to the kit, including rubberizing the motor mounts, and elevating the gas tank so that the open cable brakes weren’t interfered with – the guide said I should sheath them, but they can get bent, I don’t want the brake cable sheaths rusting out.

    Had to reverse engineer the throttle system in the carburetor because the instructions basically skipped how to assemble it. Apparently you are just supposed to know. Or you pick up the instructions on shortwave transmissions in your molars – I’m not quite sure what they expect someone to do otherwise.

    whew… that was some serious work. I still haven’t tested it. I’ve got to tighten every thing down and probably make some final tweaks. I’ll try it tonight. Hopefully we don’t kill ourselves in the process. =)

    ETA: Also, I broke a nail. =( – so I had to cut them. And they were about 1.2cm off of my fingers. People were asking me if they were real – they only do that when I get them that long. =( I have to start over again. so sad.

  76. 76.

    Suffern ACE

    August 29, 2012 at 6:12 pm

    @lamh35: He didn’t get the Olympics for Chicago and he gave the queen cheap gifts, bowed to low to the emperor of Japan, made BP pay up for its oil spill And insulted our allies by returning statues of Churchill, probably in favor some mau mau anti colonialist bust of Mugabe. Jeez she really needs to pay attention.

  77. 77.

    Mnemosyne

    August 29, 2012 at 6:30 pm

    I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet — Mary Steenburgen playing Gov. Jan Brewer in a video at Funny or Die:

    “Self Deportation Station”

  78. 78.

    Brachiator

    August 29, 2012 at 6:51 pm

    Blue Moon Coming

    Skywatchers should circle Friday (Aug. 31) on their calendars, for the date offers the last chance to see a so-called “blue moon” for nearly three years.

    The moon reaches its full phase at 9:58 a.m. EDT (1358 GMT) Friday, marking the second full moon of August (the previous one occurred Aug. 1). Stargazers won’t be able to see two full moons in a single month again until July 2015.

    Friday’s full moon won’t actually be blue, unless a load of dust or ash in the atmosphere lends it that particular hue from your vantage point. In any event, blue moons aren’t named for their color, and they look like any other full moon in the sky most of the time.

    Rather, the term has always been associated with an “extra” full moon. In the first half of the 20th century, for example, it apparently referred to the third full moon of a season — spring, summer, winter or fall — that boasted four full moons instead of the usual three.

    But that definition was misinterpreted over the years, and today we call the second full moon in a single month a “blue moon.”

    The phrase “once in a blue moon” suggests that the celestial phenomenon is exceedingly rare, but that’s not the case. Blue moons come along once every 2.7 years on average, and sometimes much more frequently. In 1999, for example, blue moons occurred in both January and March (with no full moon in February).

    Blue moons exist because our calendar months aren’t perfectly synched up with lunar months.

    It takes 29.5 days for the moon to orbit Earth, during which time we see the satellite go through all of its phases. But all calendar months (except February) have 30 or 31 days, so occasionally two full moons get squeezed into a single month.

    Like this August. Or this September, if you live in the Kamchatka region of the Russian Far East or New Zealand. In those locales, Friday’s full moon actually occurs after midnight on Saturday (Sept. 1), making the following full moon — which comes along Sept. 30 — the blue one.

  79. 79.

    Maude

    August 29, 2012 at 7:24 pm

    @Brachiator:
    Thank you.

  80. 80.

    hep kitty

    August 29, 2012 at 7:28 pm

    WTF?? SUCKIEST CONVENTION EVER

    I wish I could get drunk, damn

  81. 81.

    hep kitty

    August 29, 2012 at 7:39 pm

    I have never heard such a load of BULLSHIT in my life! WTF with Rand Paul? srsly oh FUCK you, you whiny little bastard

    What about Mitt, btw?

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

On The Road - beckya57 - Copper Canyon, Mexico, April 2025 6
Image by beckya57 (6/19/25)

Recent Comments

  • WTFGhost on Thursday Morning Open Thread: Juneteenth (Jun 19, 2025 @ 2:42pm)
  • Another Scott on Simon Rosenberg Sees Emerging Opportunity, and I Make Some Lists (Jun 19, 2025 @ 2:40pm)
  • Harrison Wesley on Simon Rosenberg Sees Emerging Opportunity, and I Make Some Lists (Jun 19, 2025 @ 2:39pm)
  • Baud on Simon Rosenberg Sees Emerging Opportunity, and I Make Some Lists (Jun 19, 2025 @ 2:39pm)
  • WTFGhost on Thursday Morning Open Thread: Juneteenth (Jun 19, 2025 @ 2:38pm)

Personality Crisis Podcast (Cole, DougJ, mistermix)

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
No Kings Protests June 14 2025

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)
Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Social Media

Balloon Juice
WaterGirl
TaMara
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
DougJ NYT Pitchbot
mistermix

Keeping Track

Legal Challenges (Lawfare)
Republicans Fleeing Town Halls (TPM)
21 Letters (to Borrow or Steal)
Search Donations from a Brand

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!