Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

People are complicated. Love is not.

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

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

T R E 4 5 O N

Second rate reporter says what?

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

Not all heroes wear capes.

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  2. 2.

    Yutsano

    I’m at the ranch. The border collies have already eaten my face off and tonight we feast on corned beef and cabbage. Tomorrow I think instead of the Japanese steakhouse for my fake birfday dinner we’ll go to the pizza joint I haven’t had in forever. I can compromise.

    @RedKitten: Oh yeah. Joe rawks. No you can’t have him. :)

  4. 4.

    jwb

    PPP poll in WI suggests that Romney “surge” after debate is almost entirely due to increased enthusiasm among conservative voters. Also, Romney had a better day in the poll on Friday than Thursday.

  7. 7.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    Texas up on WVU 28-27 after a freakish second quarter.

    Fingers crossed, ‘Eers fans…

  9. 9.

    ? Martin

    @RedKitten: That moocher looks like he feels entitled to a government provided hug. Why doesn’t he take responsibility for his life and buy his own hugs?

  11. 11.

    Hill Dweller

    @jwb: Go figure. Willard spent a good portion of that debate pretending to be a Democrat, but wingnuts don’t care because they believe he put the President in his place.

    ETA: PPP also said that their Sat. numbers all over the country look a lot like they did pre-debate.

  12. 12.

    Yutsano

    @jeffreyw: My actual b-day is at the end of the month on a Tuesday. Since Monday is a holiday I figured might as well jet on home and celebrate a little something.

  14. 14.

    Cassidy

    In Firefighter school, today, We spent all day laying hose. That sounds a lot different when spoken. My wife was not amused.

  22. 22.

    The Dangerman

    @Yutsano:

    …the Japanese steakhouse…

    Looked great…

    …but imagine my disappointment when I found it wasn’t Seattle. Traveling to Ohio before an election should give your mute finger a workout.

    Anyway, I be travelin’ to Seattle for an extended stay in December. I spent 4 long winters in Seattle, so I know what to expect (wet, gray, wet and gray, really wet and really gray, etc). Anyway, looking for recs on funky/small places for eats in or around the city. Worked in Bellevue, so I know (knew?) the Eastside pretty well. Lived in Kent (which, excluding a cool Thai place that I know is gone now, was (is?) a restaurant wasteland). In the last 20 years or so, have hit most of the tourista/large places; any off the beaten path tips on smaller places most appreciated.

    Oh, also, there used to be a cool pool hall in a converted auto garage or light warehouse; Capitol Hill if memory serves (and there’s no reason it should; most of the time spent there wasn’t especially sober). Still there? Owned by a Pearl Jammer or Soundgardener or maybe some other grunge artist as I recall.

  23. 23.

    Steeplejack

    @Yutsano:

    If you mash the button for your first link, you will find that “Fujiyama Steak House of Japan is the premier Japanese restaurant in Columbus.”

  25. 25.

    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack: Try that one. Poor linkage on my part.

    @The Dangerman: Dude. We might have two out-of-towners around at the same time! This could get epic. We’ll definitely either have to do a huge one with you and the Lojasmo clan or even two separate ones. I’m down for either.

    This place is in the lead for my favourite restaurant in town right now. But I freely admit I’ve been a cheap hermit and I haven’t taken up CaseyL’s offer to go out and try stuff around town. In my defence though I had surgery not too long after we discussed it and I have had several economic pinches lately. But raise plus easier times should help that.

  26. 26.

    The Dangerman

    @JPL:

    The So. Carolina/Georgia score is a tad surprising.

    Damn! A shutout is rather unexpected (unless the QB got hurt or similar)…

    …and what happened to Stanford? I saw them put a hurt on USC (insert boos here); losing to Dub and then having Arizona put up half a century on them?

  27. 27.

    Wally Ballou

    @Polish the Guillotines: Sorry, pal. The Tigers’ inexorable march to a championship will continue unabated tomorrow.

    Looks like a beautiful night for baseball in San Francisco. I’m taking the Giants in that series.

  28. 28.

    Steeplejack

    That guy with the ’stache in the clip up top is reminding me that I want to put a question to the Juice music hive mind: what is the Badfinger song that is basically just vocals and 12-string guitar? It wasn’t one of their hits, and I haven’t been able to run it down.

    In my mind it’s sort of on a continuum with the Eagles’ “Bitter Creek” and America’s “Donkey Jaw.” Maybe verging toward better Bread (and I mean that in a good way.)

    Any help much appreciated.

  32. 32.

    Polish the Guillotines

    @Wally Ballou: We’ll see. The only people who are shocked about the A’s success this season haven’t been paying attention.

    Oh, and ask the Rangers and Angles what they think of the A’s. I hear they’ve got plenty of time on their hands to field questions these days.

  36. 36.

    Keith G

    In between the penalties and turnovers, the Buckeyes and the Huskers are trying to have a mistake ladened shoot out.

  41. 41.

    Thlayli

    The Canes are playing the same crapola defense they’ve been playing all season. The Fighting Sanctimonious Prigs are just marching up and down the field.

  42. 42.

    The Dangerman

    @gwangung:

    You mean The Garage? On Broadway, with bowling alleys and stuff?

    The Garage and Broadway sound familiar; no bowling alley back in the day though (mid to late 90’s). Recall it being like a big Quonset (sp?) hut. It was a big place, so I could see bowling going in.

    ETA: The WVU/UT game is a ball burner!

  45. 45.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Polish the Guillotines:

    Parker kept Cabrerra in the yard today, which is big. Hopefully Milone can do the same tomorrow.

    That would be important if Leyland was throwing out a lineup that had any combination of Boesch, Worth, Raburn and Kelly in it, but the old man finally wised up late in the season and started sticking with Berry and Dirks.

  48. 48.

    Steeplejack

    @Yutsano:

    Well, that Fujiyama, of course. Duh. Looks good.

    Had my introduction to all that at the Korea House in Koza, Okinawa, in the late ’60s. Unbelievably good. Kobe beef, and great kimchi as an appetizer.

  51. 51.

    mmc

    Everyone is missing the bigger and much scarier part of his book

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/06/arkansas-republican-slavery-was-blessing-in-disguise-that-rewarded-blacks-with-u-s-citizenship/

    “And while he sees “the blacks” as a pressing problem facing America, the real threat, he wrote, comes from immigrants, “legal and illegal,” who will eventually have to be rounded up and killed.

    “(T)he immigration issue, both legal and illegal… will lead to planned wars or extermination,” said Hubbard on page 9 of Letters to the Editor. ”

    He mentions committing genocide like it’s no big deal

  52. 52.

    danielx

    Passing thought while waiting in line at Walmart:

    Can a person be sued for parental malpractice? If so, the Kardashian parents are ripe for the plucking. Anybody can have a kid who is fucked up through no fault of parents. But when various trash mags feature not one, not two, but three of your kids as materialistic trash heaps, it would seem to me that your parenting skills are…questionable.

    Another reason for being twitchy every time I have to visit Walmart.

  55. 55.

    1badbaba3

    @mmc: The beautiful thing is knowing that every night he goes to bed with gnawing feelings of impotence and shame because the unthinkable has happened on his watch. What must his great-great granddaddy think of him?

    One word: MORAN.

  58. 58.

    JCT

    I’m waiting for Cal to get whacked by UCLA tonight. And then my UCLA freshman son will channel his late grandfather and call me up to talk smack.

    My dad used to give me hell every time the Bruins beat Cal. He’d be thrilled to know his grandson was taking over for him.

  60. 60.

    The Dangerman

    @JCT:

    I’m waiting for Cal to get whacked by UCLA tonight.

    I wouldn’t be concerned; UCLA’s D-Line is legit, but secondary is weak to atrocious. O is young. I mean REALLY young.

    UCLA will be good in a year or 2.

  64. 64.

    Steeplejack

    @Warren:

    Thanks a lot! Just gave this a quick listen, as I’m going to bed. I’ll check it out more thoroughly tomorrow. It could be this one or maybe “Carry on Till Tomorrow.”

    Neither one is quite what I have (vaguely) in my mind, which is starting to make me wonder if I’m thinking of a song by another group that I thought was Badfinger.

  66. 66.

    Death Panel Truck

    @mmc:

    (T)he immigration issue, both legal and illegal… will lead to planned wars or extermination

    Hope he’s not planning on using the United States Army to accomplish it. This kind of shit always reminds me of a Gary Busey rant in D.C. Cab. Del (Busey) is talking to Albert (Adam Baldwin):

    “Nobody goes into the Army anymore except blacks. One day some n****r’s gonna wake up and say, ‘Hey, look, we got the guns, we got the mustard gas, we got the tanks…We’re runnin’ the Army!’ And they’re gonna take over the whole country…but we’ll be in with ’em already. We’ll be token whites…think about it!”

  70. 70.

    uselessbastard

    So I was having some kind of latte at a sidewalk cafe in…, let’s say Belgium. Because that sounds right.

    The man that I was there to meet didn’t speak any of the languages that I spoke (which is one), but we made ourselves understood.

    I wanted to exchange diamonds for pure Belgian cow butter.

    Yep, Butter.

    I was about to become the world-wide kingpin in the butter trade.

    But just as we were about to make the exchange… the goddamn ghost of Salvador Dali kicks open the door to the kitchen.

    It’s a sliding door….. so this took a few seconds. And honestly, was just not that cool looking.

    But there he was. This time he was dressed like Pancho Villa. Ammo across the chest, big hat, chaps, hell… spurs.

    He demanded to know what I knew about the exchange rate for pork futures.

    I offered him some vodka and gatoraid.

    He said yes and sat down on the floor and drank roughly half a fifth of vodka in about 22 seconds. Just an estimate…

    That’s when he started to talk about how he hated the smell of paint, and then passed out on my floor.

    Anyway, ten seconds later he jumped up, pissed on my couch, and screamed something about “making all fish free”, before jumping out of my living room window.

    Dude, the door was open.

    So the lesson learned here today is obviously that you should never buy a stolen bike. Because then you have to get rid of it………

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