Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This really is a full service blog.

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

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

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

The revolution will be supervised.

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

People are complicated. Love is not.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Come on, man.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

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  2. 2.

    mistermix

    @Barry: It is a bit of a paradox, but if the newest post you see is a day old, then you’ve got an old version. Since you got this post, you don’t have a problem.

    Reload is the the 3/4 circle with an arrow at about 2 o’clock near the URL. It is in slightly different places depending on which browser you use.

  3. 3.

    Jay C

    No, nothing different appeared: SSDD at Balloon Juice, I guess…..

    But back to site-redesign complaints: Is it ever going to remember our names/nyms/emails, or are we doomed to an eternity (or it will just seem that long?) of having to sign in for each and every bullshit cogent comment??

  7. 7.

    Tonal Crow

    @joes527:

    Every thread I read seems to have the same trolls. What key do I hit to get rid of that?

    ctrl/alt/delete, then select “shutdown”.

  13. 13.

    Barry

    @mistermix: “Reload is the the 3/4 circle with an arrow at about 2 o’clock near the URL. It is in slightly different places depending on which browser you use. ”

    Thanks (I was sure that that was what was meant, but I’d never heard of shift-reload).

  14. 14.

    Mnemosyne

    @mistermix:

    Reload is the the 3/4 circle with an arrow at about 2 o’clock near the URL.

    Actually, the Reload button in the address bar has not been working for me for several days now. I’ve been having to do cmd-R or go up to the menu to reload. Just FYI.

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    Has the site re-do really happened? ‘Cause it doesn’t look any different, and we don’t seem to have gotten any of the changes we asked for.

    Oh, and shift-reload doesn’t do a thing in Safari on my mac.

    /cranky

  16. 16.

    Valdivia

    I keep getting last weeks post on Chrome. Have to do a search and click inside it on BJ to get today’s posts.

  17. 17.

    Lee

    I see up-to-date posts but the layout is exactly the same.

    I think someone needs to jiggle the wires a bit.

    Checked mobile and it looks the same as well.

    Maybe the new layout as not replicated to all the WP servers yet?

    EDIT: Ok I see a difference, the rotating tag line is missing.

    THAT is the upgrade?

  18. 18.

    Tonal Crow

    EDIT: Ok I see a difference, the rotating tag line is missing.

    THAT is the upgrade?

    Ooo, the balloon’s bottom is cut off, too. And we have to type in our names and email addresses frequently. So far, this is shaping up to be the Windows 8 of BJ “upgrades”.

    ETA: Maybe I can use the common word for footwear? Shoes! Hey, it worked! Now, to post an original message containing the word….

  19. 19.

    Tonal Crow

    Well, you *can* say “shoes”, but using the proper spelling of “sockialism” still causes WP to mark your message as spam and delete it. At least it tells you “Your edited comment was marked as spam. If this is in error, please contact the admin. – Close”.

    Meh. How much did people donate for this “upgrade”?

  20. 20.

    Tonal Crow

    All right, can we take an imaginary trip to one of those emporia in which people bet money they don’t have? Let’s see: casino!

  21. 21.

    Tonal Crow

    Hmm, messages containing a term for places in which people bet their mortgage money, get dumped into moderation.

  23. 23.

    Tonal Crow

    A term for a common game of chance featuring a spinning wheel also bumps the containing message into moderation.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    @Lee:

    Site update has not happened yet. “Old version” refers to the recent ongoing snafu in which site content is not being updated.

  28. 28.

    Tonal Crow

    @Steeplejack: Doesn’t work for me, whether inserted via the edit box (I get the “spam” error) or written in an original message (the message disappears without a trace). Maybe it works if I use italics? ETA: No dice.

  30. 30.

    Steeplejack

    @Tonal Crow:

    Socialism works for me without italics.

    Maybe you could try deleting your Balloon Juice cookies and letting them repopulate.

    I’m using Firefox (18.0.2) on WinXP.

  31. 31.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @Tonal Crow:

    I sent Cole an email about a free WP plug in that takes Aksimet positives and opens up a simple, text-based CAPTCHA dialog. If you type in the correct response then your comment is posted. Seems like a nice solution to all of the Aksimet tripwires and it would save the FPers the effort of pulling legit comments out of moderation.

    Haven’t heard back from Cole. I figure that he thought I was a spammer of some sort.

  32. 32.

    Tonal Crow

    @Steeplejack: I just tried that. Doesn’t work. I wonder if it’s because I’ve disabled third-party cookies? I’m not going to enable them to find out. Any site that requires them is broken by definition.

  34. 34.

    Helen Bedd

    oddly enough my chrome browser kept seeing the site from two days ago, but when i came in via firefox it saw the newest posts

    so i went back to chrome, deleted the old bookmark…did the shift reload and added that page as a bookmark…seems to have worked

  36. 36.

    lojasmo

    I see Ted and Hellen is still posting.

    Ergo, no upgrade.

    also, still can’t say pen1s

    Still won’t remember my nym and email. Shitty upgrade.

  41. 41.

    Central Planning

    Seems it saved my name/email.

    Since I chipped in a bit, when can I expect to get my signed group picture of all the FPers?

  44. 44.

    LanceThruster

    That doesn’t work for me so I just go down to “Older Posts” and it goes to newer posts for some reason.

  45. 45.

    joel hanes

    @Barry:

    Bah :

    If you’re the Barry I knew in Wurzburg —

    I just now saw your “shock of recognition” comment of the 26th. Small world, mate.

    My email address :
    my first name followed immediately by
    the integer that is twice two hundred twenty seven
    dot comcast
    dot net

    POZZO: He used to dance the farandole, the fling, the brawl, the jig,
    the fandango and even the hornpipe. He capered. For joy. Now
    that’s the best he can do. Do you know what he calls it?
    ESTRAGON: The Scapegoat’s Agony.
    VLADIMIR: The Hard Stool.
    POZZO: The Net. He thinks he’s entangled in a net

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