Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

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

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

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

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Second rate reporter says what?

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

White supremacy is terrorism.

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

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  2. 2.

    cathyx

    So this will be the last day ever to have the 3 numbers be the same. Unless the Mayan calendar interpretation that the end of the world is upon us this month is true. Then I guess we start back to 1-1-01 after that happens.

  5. 5.

    Brachiator

    The Best Beer in the World?

    Drink Up

    Beer aficionados are pouncing at the rare opportunity to buy one of the world’s most elusive and revered beers for the first – and perhaps only – time in the United States.

    It is called Westvleteren XII, and it is often hailed as the “world’s best beer” by reviewers and fans.

    Westvleteren XII is produced by Trappist monks in Belgium and sold at the abbey of Saint Sixtus in the Belgian countryside. The beer can usually only be purchased by reservation at the abbey – and reservations are extremely hard to come by.

    But when the abbey found itself hurting for money for an expensive renovation, the monks reluctantly made the decision to sell the beer outside of the walls of the monastery on a one-time-only basis.

    “I think it will be the last [time],” Westvleteren Brewery spokesman Mark Bode told NPR. “They say, ‘We are monks, we don’t want to be too commercial. We needed some money to help us buy the new abbey and that’s it,’ Back to normal again.”

    Beginning today, limited quantities of the beer are being sold in the U.S. and abroad. A number of stores have been sent “bricks” of the beer, which include six bottles and two glasses from the monastery. The gift box retails for $84.99.

    “The phone has been ringing off the hook,” Megan McBrayer, manager at New York City’s Beer Table Pantry, told ABCNews.com. She said the store received 24 cases of the beer and has already sold many of them.

    McBrayer said beer lovers are taken with “the whole mystique about it and the rarity of it.”

    “It consistently rates as one of the best beers in the world,” she said. “It’s been something that [beer lovers] have wanted for a long time, but it’s been completely unattainable.”

  6. 6.

    Forum Transmitted Disease

    So this will be the last day ever to have the 3 numbers be the same.

    @cathyx: You’re just not that bright, are you? (As you’ve proven amply on previous threads)

    January 1st, 2101. 1/1/1.

    This will happen every century until the heat death of the universe.

  9. 9.

    kindness

    I see a title of the 2013 Balloon Juice Calendar in the BJ store but there is no data under the title when clicked.

    I want to throw money at BJ but would like to see what is in it (and how much it is).

  24. 24.

    waratah

    I just refreshed and things look normal again.
    I was wondering if the end came early and I did not get to have
    my quiet evening birthday celebration.

  25. 25.

    jl

    I’m getting up the courage to read this story that just showed up on TPM front page today (probably need a little nip of serious hard likker first):

    12.12.2012, 05:19 PM
    Conservation Is Not Enough
    Gop Pollster: Republicans have “run out of” white people.

  26. 26.

    JPL

    Google Chrome still shows the site have wp problems but firefox is okay…

    @jl: They want to go back to the days of Bush when he attracted Hispanics.

  29. 29.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @jl:

    Gop Pollster: Republicans have “run out of” white people

    You know who else ran out of white people?

    The Donner Party.

  33. 33.

    Jay S

    So if I comment can I see broken blog be broken? Does it only break for comments and not for lurkers?

  35. 35.

    MikeJ

    @jl: From the article:

    Republicans need to dramatically improve their standing with Latino voters or risk becoming a “regional party” of disaffected whites, according to a study released Wednesday by a GOP pollster.

    It will come as news to many Latinos that they aren’t white.

  36. 36.

    dmsilev

    @jl:

    Gop Pollster: Republicans have “run out of” white people.

    Explains why there’s been a recent uptick in ‘white women need to start having more babies’ columns from conservative blatherers.

  38. 38.

    Jay S

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    Jay S Says:

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    So if I comment can I see broken blog be broken? Does it only break for comments and not for lurkers?

    Yep I see this in my comment and the 3 comments above mine

  44. 44.

    Tara the Antisocial Social Worker

    On tonight’s agenda: making latkes. But I couldn’t find caviar at either of the nearby grocery stores. Sour cream and caviar are the proper accompaniments to latkes (not applesauce as some blasphemers suggest).

  51. 51.

    mainmati

    @cathyx:Notwithstanding the Mayan caveat, it is just the last time this century. We can do it all over again in the next century just as we would have done it in 1912. But Americans probably didn’t notice since they had just elected Woodrow Wilson as President who had huge changes in mind, e.g. the currently topical fiscal cliff is largely about the income tax which was instituted by Wilson among many other things.

  52. 52.

    General Stuck

    “Mitt Romney won a landslide among white voters, defeating Barack Obama by 59 to 39 percent. In the process he won every large segment of white voters, often by double-digit margins: white men, white women, white Catholics, white Protestants, white old people, white young people.

    I would like to just take a moment to thank that 39 percent of white folk who went against the majority of their tribe, and the rank stupidity and other bad things that caused 59 percent of white voters to vote for Mitt Romney, a candidate with no soul nor shred of intellectual honesty, with so much as a morsel of compassion for those less fortunate than him. And erstwhile, chock full of crass white supremacy, real or feigned. WE might be white, but we ain’t all mean and crazy.

  53. 53.

    cathyx

    Fun fact: I live right by the mall that had that shooting yesterday in Oregon. A friend of mine’s daughter was working there when it happened and saw it all.

  56. 56.

    MikeJ

    @cathyx: IT will show up every time you comment, until John or his minions fix it.

    to fix:
    find wp-config.php in the root of your wordpress install.

    Either edit it on the server if you have shell access or download it to your local machine.

    Open it with a plain text editor (like notepad on windows).

    Add the line:
    @ini_set(‘display_errors’, 0);

    Save the file as plain text.

    If needed, reupload it to the server.

    Presto.

  61. 61.

    West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)

    I just read that Track/Trick/Trig/Tack–whatever Palin has filed for divorce from his wife of 19 months. They have a 16-month-old daughter. I’m torn between saying something snarky (at Sarah’s expense) and hoping things work out for the ex- and the baby. Don’t know the reasons for the split. Both husband and wife are probably young, under-educated, and spoiled. Oh, well….

  62. 62.

    WereBear

    We just went out to dinner to celebrate, something Mr WereBear can’t always do, so we are thrilled each time.

    We triumphed on 11/8/12. I still haven’t stopped celebrating that!

  63. 63.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @Brachiator:
    $84.99 for a six pack of beer? Dang! My palette isn’t sufficiently discriminating and my upbringing too low rent to be able to appreciate such a beer.

    Cheers to those who can and will appreciate it though.

  66. 66.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @Comrade Jake:

    $85 is a lot cheaper than a plane flight to Belgium.

    Heh! To paraphrase Thomas Pynchon, I’m just a white hat in the Navy of life. For me, the best beer in the world is the one that’s cold and in my hand on a hot day.

  67. 67.

    Tonal Crow

    Completely unsubstantiated fearmongering prediction of doom #8873247986 bites the dust.

    Meanwhile, we continue to ignore the gathering climate-change storm.

    Is our humans learning yet?

  68. 68.

    Tonal Crow

    @cathyx:

    So this will be the last day ever to have the 3 numbers be the same.

    12/12/3012. 12/12/4012. 12/12/…. Not that civilized humans are likely to be around on 12/12/3012, mind you.

  70. 70.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @ThatLeftTurnInABQ: I had to read this twice to get it. What a gloriously sick joke.

    You know how you can name your iPod? I named mine Titanic. It’s syncing now.

  72. 72.

    Tonal Crow

    @MattR:

    @Tonal Crow: 12/12/2112 (for the Rush fans – who have had a good week)….

    Quite right. I’ll acknowledge that as one of my more stupid posts, though others here might disagree.

  74. 74.

    Mnemosyne

    My friend is having a cool cookie party/open house tonight (12 is her favorite number) and I’m stuck at home with the flu. Oh, and I was unable to sell any of my stuff at the company craft fair because of the fucking FLU!

    At this point, I’m hoping the Mayans were right, because so far 2012 has been a crappy year and I’m not sure I’m going to make it to 1/1/13.

  75. 75.

    redshirt

    I was hep to this MAYAN APOCALYPSE way back – in the 90’s, man. But then I ran with a new agey crowd and there was all kinds of mystical explanations to everything. It was kinda awesome, and looking back now from my perch of stone hard scientific empiricism, I grow a tad wistful.

    Just a tad, though, mind you. I’ll take the truth – even if harsh, painful, and/or depressing – over myth or knowing lie any day. Except for Sunday. On that day I rest.

  77. 77.

    J R in WVa

    Well, we’re watching the 121212 concert, and I went to the donate link, and got an error so like the FYWP error I was shocked.

    I tried again, and I guess on second thought I may have contributed twice as much as I expected, which isn’t the end of the world…This is my first exposure to modern rap, not as bad as I feared, but not as good as Bruce, or Eric, or even the Who.

    Is this Kanye West?

    At least there’s more music to come. There is art in this act, it isn’t just chanting, and he’s political too…

    oh well, wish me luck, and g-night

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