Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Republicans don’t trust women.

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

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

The revolution will be supervised.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

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

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

The willow is too close to the house.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

In my day, never was longer.

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  1. 1.

    Michael G

    For all the people who are complaining, there must be tons of people like me, who can barely notice the changes even after they are pointed out to me.

  2. 2.

    Suzanne

    It’s not that they look DIFFERENT. It’s,that they look SHITTY.

    :::ducks:::

  6. 6.

    phantomist

    One night while sleeping in my bed
    I had a beautiful dream
    That all the people of the world got together
    On the same wavelength
    And began helping one another
    Now in this dream universal love was the theme of the day
    Peace and understanding and it happened this way
    __
    hee hee

  7. 7.

    Spaghetti Lee

    OMG OMG OMG CHANGE.

    I believe that was Team Obama’s first slogan before they came up with “change we can believe in.”

    Textboxes and font changes don’t muss my hair, but I’m hoping that…thing I saw late Saturday isn’t the future.

  9. 9.

    Suzanne

    FWIW, I like the blue quoted text. The titles look like ass, though. The kerning looks like it was done by a stoned ninth-grader playing with Photoshop.

  10. 10.

    Joseph Nobles

    Speaking of change, Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy because of her genetic predisposition to breast cancer. Her op-ed about it is in the New York Times today.

    I posted this in the last thread, but I’m posting it here, too.

    Here’s a link:

    http://t.co/XCqp341v94

  12. 12.

    stickler

    Wait … somebody changed something?

    Between all the changes at work, the divorce, the kids doing teen crap (no arrests, so far), and all, I guess I didn’t notice.

    Oh – that title font. I don’t like it. I’m going to demand my money back.

  13. 13.

    Cacti

    At least the rest of us know not to leave out a sandwich and trust dogs to work on the honor system.

  14. 14.

    Mike D.

    I like the font; I don’t like the small caps. Can you get that font in a non-all-caps version?

  16. 16.

    Mnemosyne

    @Joseph Nobles:

    Wow, what a sucky decision to have to make. I’m pretty sure I’m not in the BRCA group because the only family history I have was (unfortunately) my mother — none of her 3 sisters or her mother had breast or ovarian cancer, and it’s never been on my dad’s side.

    I did have to get my baseline mammogram at 30, which was really not fun, and probably didn’t do a whole lot of good anyway.

  17. 17.

    JWL

    Respectfully speaking, Cole.

    Lately, you’re beginning to sound unbalanced. And not in a good sense.

    If you need a vacation from your creation, i.e., this blog, you should take it.

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    @MikeD.

    Haven’t looked at the CSS style sheet code, but most likely just have to remove the font-variant:small-caps coding.

  19. 19.

    Xenos

    Not much point complaining about the Newsmax link. I went there and left a couple innocuous comments, and now the whole site has been down for two days. Well done, the flood of traffic from BJ has killed Newsmax!!

  20. 20.

    Marcelo

    That’s it?

    I was waiting for like… a complete reformat, a new layout or something. New fonts and subtle changes and everything else on the backend? Boresville. :)

  23. 23.

    seaboogie

    Next time you are traveling down a highway John, notice that the letters on the signs are not all in upper case, and that is because our eyes and our brains receive the info more easily this way. Also, the seriphs in the font are another distraction. It’s too visually jangly, even though it matches the logo (which is fine). I’m going to go one step further too and say that the numbers on the comments are rather too fancy and stylized. Maybe something simpler in the headlines and numbers so that we can just focus on the content of the responses. I work with visual and design, and these elements were making me feel like a cat who has had all its fur rubbed the wrong way – Tunch will explain.

  24. 24.

    Arclite

    I don’t think Cole is UN balanced, just that the commeenters have been quite cantankerous of late.

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    @John ColeAhem. Matters of taste in looks flashback:

    On the upside, the Omni Westin William Penn has no dollar dispensers on their soda machines, which means that the entire hotel was treated with me stumbling around the reception desk asking for quarters while wearing a Steelers T, boxer shorts, and socks and flip flops.

    /gentle ribbing

  27. 27.

    John Cole

    @Arclite:

    I don’t think Cole is UN balanced

    I’m not unbalanced, I’m completely stable. I’ve been a hot mess and completely nuts for decades. Nothing has changed. Like I said, stable. I’ll be like this until I drop dead.

  28. 28.

    Xenos

    The only case where mixed caps are called for is in legal citations in law review articles. Don’t ask me why, most of the articles are already unreadable and pretentious. I suspect the only point is to make law review clerks more miserable.

  29. 29.

    John Casey

    I like the look.

    Please tell the naysayers to fuck off.

    Not that you need my direction for that.

  31. 31.

    Anne Laurie

    @John Cole: You do realize that Zevon wrote that song after he’d been diagnosed with inoperable cancer? Inoperable, because he’d made the decision not to see a doctor when the symptoms started, because they’d just hassle him about the smoking & the drinking & the untreated bipolar disorder issues?

    Are you trying to game us all, or is it just your own particular art?

  32. 32.

    NotMax

    @Xenos

    They can be an interesting, if unnecessary, accent in some instances with the right sans-serif font.

    Used them that way once, but only for the smaller print of the day and date of a post on a blogspot (yuck) site I designed for someone as a favor once.

    Serif fonts with small caps nearly always come across as too jaggedy looking, IMHO.

  36. 36.

    dance around in your bones

    Don’t think of it as bitching, John – just loving, helpful suggestions, because we all love this place so fucking much.

    @TBogg: PLEASE leave that place and come over here. You will be so much more appreciated and your comment count will shoot into the stratosphere.

    I have no idea if the remunerations will be equivalent. Ha!

  38. 38.

    Burnspbesq

    The heck with allayall. I am going to spend my birthday reading the new Easy Rawlins novel and listening to Bach. See ya Wednesday.

  40. 40.

    A Humble Lurker

    I’m only confused about the comments still being on the left. I thought they were going back to center. Also, I still miss the Balloon Guy.

    Other than that, I’m fine with everything. *shrugs*

  42. 42.

    max

    @John Cole: I love the look so far.

    Huh. OK. Well, pale blue and white seems like the color combo one goes for when one thinks one is not depressed enough, but OK. (Yes, yes, all the D’s think the R’s have red (just like on the stars & bars!) so we have to do blue, but fuck those guys, I don’t care what they do. If it looks good, great, if not, don’t do that.

    As for the awfulness, well, it’s bland. It doesn’t render great in IE, everything is fine in Chrome *except* the post titles, and it looks fine (if bland) in Firefox. I saw the change on Saturday night in Firefox and it didn’t strike as an improvement on this but it wasn’t a drastic implosion, either. Not seeing the point of it all, actually.

    Nothin’ wrong with, say, orange. Or purple. Or black & yellow (unless it was yellow text on a black background, obvs – don’t do that).

    max
    [‘Miracle Whip on Wonder Bread with American cheese product and chicken lunch meat is not really my thing. Takes all kinds though.’]

  44. 44.

    amk

    APPLESAUCE.

    That’s you need, dood.

    Also. Too.

    A permanent blog masthead of “How has Obama has pissed you off, today?”

  45. 45.

    Schlemizel

    JC – you always stay up way past my bed time to start this shit.

    I think the new design is nice. I like the font used for the headline even though I am not crazy for serif fonts, I like the small caps. The blue quote box is cool.

    Its fine, calm the fuck down, ignore the whiners who will get over it and carry on

  46. 46.

    Soonergrunt

    Where’s my fucking rotating tag lines, already?

    If you bring that feature back, you should add Darrell Issa’s “An Act of Terror is Different Than Terrorism” among others.

  48. 48.

    Shortstop

    @Mnemosyne: You’re complaining about the discomfort of a mammogram in the context of a woman who had a double mastectomy because she had an 87 percent chance of getting breast cancer? What is first-world problems x1000?

  50. 50.

    stevie

    Actually I do not see any titles on the front page right now. I don’t really care. What is written is important to me not what it is named. I can see the title if I click on the article.

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