Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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

Hot air and ill-informed banter

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

People are complicated. Love is not.

The willow is too close to the house.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

I really should read my own blog.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

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

A Senator Walker would be an insult to the state and the nation.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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

All your base are belong to Tunch.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

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

Good lord, these people are nuts.

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  2. 2.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    Flossie is just about killing me with the post spaying stuff. She is trying to rip out her stitches, causing all sorts of problems with her tiny slit in her belly to the extent that I am wrapping her up with ace bandages on a daily basis. The Elizabethan collar works sometimes, but not all the time. I am worried that she is going to evicerate herself.

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    blieker

    This will be the last one for a hundred years.

    What? How about 4-14-14? Mike J has it right.

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    jl

    @MikeJ: Uh-oh. Doesn’t the world end on palindromic dates, if done in the right date format? And we have two 13s in Tim F’s date. Should I be twice as scared, or just watch out to not walk under double ladders?

  8. 8.

    Raenelle

    I don’t understand. What’s wrong with 4-14-14, 5-15-15, . . . 9-19-19? I’ve changed my meds, so I may be missing something obvious. But I don’t understand why this is the last palindrome day, in this date format, for a century.

  12. 12.

    jl

    @ranchandsyrup:

    ” A slut nixes sex in Tulsa. ”

    Why didn’t they teach me that in grade school? You give an example like that, and students won’t forget what palindrome means, fer sher.

  16. 16.

    jl

    I found a guide to palindromic dates (in the two most common date formats) by some fellow at University of Portland.
    There seems to be something special about Mitt Romney’s palindromic birth date, but I will click on that and find out what it is later.

    Palindrome Dates (Palindrome Days) in the 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 23rd Centuries
    http://faculty.up.edu/ainan/palindrome.html

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Yutsano: Not well enough to have come up with that palindrome. Also too, he spoke French with a strong Corsican-Italian accent.

  21. 21.

    ruemara

    I just don’t get it. Why? Mike is almost painfully shy, very sweet and friendly. WHy would anyone attack him? Why would they beat him up like this? I don’t hate people but I don’t understand this kind of hatred & violence.

  24. 24.

    The Dangerman

    A Palin drone? I’m all for it as long as you get most of the kids!

    Palindrome?! Oops, my bad. Carry on.

  26. 26.

    ruemara

    homophobia: the terrifying fear that some guy will treat you like you treat women. and that you’ll like it.

  30. 30.

    burnspbesq

    One of the all-time great palindromes appeared in Roger Angell’s magnificent New Yorker piece on the 1986 World Series.

    “Not so, Boston.”

  32. 32.

    gogol's wife

    I just watched “Animal House” for the first time since I saw it when it came out. I now realize that many humorous quips that I thought were Balloon Juice originals are in fact quotations from that sacred text.

  38. 38.

    gogol's wife

    @MikeJ:

    I love “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.”

    Also too, Niedermeyer IS Mitt Romney!

  40. 40.

    gogol's wife

    @Yutsano:

    Having just seen it, I think it’s “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?” But I could be wrong.

  50. 50.

    scav

    Gurgle of joy from this snippit, for obvious (or not so obvious) reasons.

    “Extra omnes,” says the master of ceremonies, Monsignor Guido Marini, in Latin: everybody out.

    Possibly a sub-nym for this period of the smoke-reading?

  55. 55.

    catclub

    It seems to me that 2-22-22 is a palindromic number.
    Trivial, bit I like trivial solutions.
    05-5-50 if you start abusing the format
    15-5-51

    et cetera, et cetera

  57. 57.

    jamick6000

    Here is an amazing David Brooks column from April 2003 on the then-recent invasion of Iraq. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/565jgibg.asp?page=3

    Here he’s describing how a hypothetical 20-year old, “Joey,” who’s watching the war unfold and how the events would shape his political views:

    Joey doesn’t know much about history; he was born in 1983 and was only 6 when the Berlin Wall fell. He really has no firm idea of what labels like liberal and conservative mean. But now he is in college, and he’s been glued to the cable coverage of the war and is ready to form some opinions. Over the past months, certain facts and characters have entered his consciousness, like characters in a play he is seeing for the first time.

    The first character is America itself. He sees that his country is an incredibly effective colossus that can drop bombs onto pinpoints, destroy enemies that aren’t even aware they are under attack. He sees a ruling establishment that can conduct wars with incredible competence and skill. He sees a federal government that can perform its primary task–protecting the American people–magnificently.

    These are obviously not the things Joey would have seen if he had come of age in 1972, and his mentality is likely to be radically different from that of many people of the sixties generation. He is likely to feel confident about American power. He is likely to assume that when America projects its might, it is not only great, but good. Its pilots fly low, at some risk to themselves, to reduce civilian casualties. Teams of lawyers vet bombing targets to minimize unnecessary damage. Efforts are made to spare enemy soldiers who don’t want to fight. The military, moreover, is fundamentally open to the press, allowing embedded reporters to wander amidst the troops. The ruling class is reasonably candid about the war’s progress. The anonymous people in the corridors of power basically seem to know what they are doing.

    bold mine.

    And here’s how the column ends:

    Joey isn’t one of a kind. There are millions of Joeys, and variations on Joey. Inevitably, then, in ways subtle and profound, the events of the past month will shape our politics for the rest of our lives.

  64. 64.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @jamick6000: It sounds better than Joey Clean Slate (which is possibly the worst Native American name since Dull Knife, who was a bad ass).

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    Mnemosyne

    @jamick6000:

    Joey isn’t one of a kind. There are millions of Joeys, and variations on Joey. Inevitably, then, in ways subtle and profound, the events of the past month will shape our politics for the rest of our lives.

    The ironic part is, Brooks was 100 percent right about this. Thousands, if not millions, of Joeys were watching the Bush administration in action in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in New Orleans.

    And that’s why they all voted for Barack Obama.

  68. 68.

    NotMax

    Also too (using the same formatting):

    9-1-19
    9-2-29
    9-3-39
    9-4-49
    9-5-59
    9-6-69
    9-7-79
    9-8-89
    9-9-99

    and so many, many more.

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