I very seriously hope I am not the only one going on an Arrested Development binge to make sure I am ready for the new episodes.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.
Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.
The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.
Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard
Their freedom requires your slavery.
No one could have predicted…
Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”
“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
This fight is for everything.
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.
The gop is a fucking disgrace.
“In the future, this lab will be a museum. don’t touch it.”
It could be worse. Vance could have said “post-menopausal sows.” Waiting for that audiotape to surface.
… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop
Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?
Days Since JD Vance Insulted Women Across America: Zero
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
The US Supreme Court is on the ballot in november.
The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.
Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.
In after Baud. Damn.
I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!
We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.
PeakVT
Something retro and live for your listening pleasure.
I just finished ADWD on Tuesday. It was decent, but not worth shelling out $20 or $30 for a hardback unless you are a diehard ASOIAF fan.
Arclite
I am halfway through season 1. Again. So you’re not the only one.
OMG, is it so funny. Still.
Higgs Boson's Mate
After getting to watch Arrested Development on Netflix I very much like the show. To me there is something a bit weird, though, about resurrecting it after so many years.
Suffern ACE
You need to see an analrapist.
SatanicPanic
Remember that guy who was whining about enough non-political threads the other day? Where is that guy now?
ulee
anne bigfooted again.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@ulee:
An hour and a half is big footing?
Laertes
I’m about a third of the way into season 2. This stuff is so great.
NotMax
Show was usually mildly amusing, but couldn’t touch Soap for sheer manic, ballsy, goofy lunacy.
eemom
um, Cole? We pack of snarling vitriolic jackals have at long last found something we can all agree on, and it is that the site redesign sucks great big ugly rhinoceros dicks and the tiny print in the comments is making us all go blind. Jussayinzall.
Maus
Don’t forget to also catch http://arresteddevelopmentdoc.com
It was pretty good! I loved all the interviews.
Arclite
@NotMax: AD is the modern Soap. They are both so good.
handy
@eemom:
Yeah but these Newsmax headlines are a RIOT!
? Martin
Ok, this thing is coming along. Got the comments 14pt Source Sans Pro. Most of the extraneous stuff (newsmax) is hidden and most of the boxes are now hidden. Relatively clean page now. Still a bit more to do.
Ads aren’t blocked, so Cole still gets the revenue.
TaMara (BHF)
I’m burnt out on tv right now, highly unusual for me. But suddenly I’m on a book binge. I read like that, go for months without opening my kindle or a paper book, then read two or three at a time.
Eventually I’ll finish House of Cards on netflix and catch up with whatever I missed on HULU.
Before I burnt out, I watched Top of the Lake in one sitting. I highly recommend it if you’re looking for something on Netflix.
Steeplejack
@eemom:
There are remedies. What browser and OS? For most people, go to View | Zoom on your browser menu bar, check “Zoom Text Only.” Then you can use Ctrl-+ (or Command-+) to goose up the text size without screwing up the columns.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@NotMax:
Ah, Soap. I also thought that Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was an excellent soap opera parody.
Suffern ACE
OT-My cat has always been skittish. I call him the fraidy cat. But lately, he seems to be afraid of his kibble. 9 years I’ve been replenishing the kibble at night when I get home. But now he approached it like he thinks it might attack him. He’s not hunting it. He relaxes as soon as he realizes it is kibble and he eats it. but he us very tense approaching the bowl. Is he losing his mind or is he just trying to make his life more exciting?
Redshirt
Instead of TV, my commune performs puppet shows from within the burned out husk of an old TV. Very popular.
ulee
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: recent historical reference is your friend.
TaMara (BHF)
@eemom: Speak for yourself. I love it. ctr+ made comments more than readable and the whole thing just zips along – loading, posting comments and I like the colors. No complaints here.
Though for some reason edit feature will not go back to original comment after saving. It was fine last night, today not so much. Glitch alert.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@ulee:
I don’t get the excitement about big footing. The prior post is still there and you can still comment on it.
ulee
@Steeplejack: I was going to kill myself tonight but I’ve got half a bottle of merlot left and I really need to prime and paint the kitchen ceiling tomorrow. I’ll keep you updated.
ulee
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: No thanks, it was just a throwaway comment.
Comrade Mary
@Suffern ACE: Is it possible it hurts him to eat kibble? Can you see anything off with teeth, gums or any other part of his mouth?
ranchandsyrup
This was a good laugh
Corner Stone
@ulee: Blergh.
ranchandsyrup
This was a good laugh
John Cole
@ulee: Anne has 300 drafts on the server, and as such, never pays a whit of attention when someone else is writing a post (and it is marked as draft) and instead comes in, cuts and pastes a post in, or tinkers with an old draft and hits submit.
This is not my fault. By now she should realize when I have a draft, I am going to post it and am in the process of writing it. I mean, this shit has not changed in the last six years.
becca
I just got finished signing a petition at change.org to re- open the Don Siegelman case.
America’s #1 Political Prisoner brought to you by Karl (who else?)Rove and the Bush DOJ.
Help give Karl Rove nightmares. Sign the petition.
ulee
@John Cole: No shit, Cole. She was kidding around and so was I. You’re obviously very respectful to your front pagers. Jesus.
Jean
What happened to the Balloon Juice lexicon? Is it gone?
SatanicPanic
@ulee: you OK there Ulee?
dance around in your bones
@Redshirt: Gads, that reminds me of the movie (a mad max? been searching the youtube with no luck) for the “‘member this? ‘member this?” kids with their home made tv shell searching for the captain and the plane that will come to rescue them. And the ViewMaster with the slides of civilization….what movie was that?
I swear, I’m getting old-timer’s…I can’t remember stuff. Unlike those kids.
handy
@Jean:
Tunch ate it, of course.
Shalimar
My favorite Newsmax headline so far: “Investors earn 600% buying and selling gold on same day.”
It’s in the news section, so it must be true. Though I do wonder why the editors at Newsmax are still working since they have to all be billionaires by now.
ulee
@SatanicPanic: No, not really. But I’m doing the best I can. And I’m sorry about insulting you about your opinion about the Beatles the other night. I can be an idiot, particularly, though not exclusively, after I’ve been drinking whiskey.
FlipYrWhig
Isn’t that Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome? Feral children?
FlipYrWhig
Great, edit just triggers a spiral to nowhere of getting kicked out and having to get back in. Mobile version FTW!
Redshirt
@dance around in your bones: You were right – Mad Max “Thunderdome” or whatever. The one with Tina Turner.
SatanicPanic
@ulee: No problem, I only remember it was something about Sgt Pepper’s, but I don’t get upset if people don’t agree with me on music, unless it’s something I made personally.
dance around in your bones
Ah! Mad Max : Beyond Thunderdome…The Tell of Captain Walker. That’s it.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@ulee:
Back in the early Eighties a recently divorced co-worker was fixed up with a young lady some years younger than he was.
The day after the date I asked him how it went. He said that he’d put a Wings tape in his car’s cassette deck. “Ooo, I love Paul McCartney,” said the date. Then she asked “Wasn’t he in another band before Wings?” At that moment I felt the liver-spotted arm of Old Age slipping around my shoulders.
Redshirt
@dance around in your bones: LOL. Yup, it’s pretty much just like that.
Suzanne
Site still looks crappy on the iPad in portrait format. The right column doesn’t adjust in width, but the center one does, so each line if text only had 1-2 words on it. FAIL.
I watched the full series of AD last year but will probably do so again. How much do I adore Lucille?!
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Suzanne: It has always looked better in landscape mode, in my opinion.
dance around in your bones
@Redshirt: I think that was my favorite part of the whole movie. Cargo cult, indeed.
Triumph
Noooope. My marathon starts this weekend.
NotMax
Short interlude to put stuff into perspective:
Take it away, Mr. Y. Warner!
ulee
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: If true karma exists, she is dating now, she is telling the same story to her young date and he asks, “What’s a cassette deck?”
Suzanne
@The prophet Nostradumbass: Not being as old as some of y’all, I find landscape too big. The programming of the column widths is off.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@ulee:
What an excellent image! And her children will someday be asked “What’s a CD?”
And the beat goes on.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Suzanne: You young whipper-snappers! *shakes fist*
Today I was told I need to either get bifocals, or reading glasses to go along with my contact lenses.
Suffern ACE
I’m thinking that if I were given a million dollars to recruit a spy in Russia, I’d just give it to Cole for a site upgrade endowment and claim that my recruit went so deep under cover that he couldn’t be found.
Anne Laurie
@John Cole: You lie. If you’re working on a draft, I won’t even start. Problem is, I finish a draft, hit the preview button, do a final proofread (I’m dyslexic), check to make sure the existing top post has been up for a while, and then hit publish. Some percentage of the time — especially when both of us are slapping together an Open Thread — your entire post somehow goes from ‘not on the dashboard’ to ‘published’ in the interval between preview and publish.
I always assumed you didn’t edit on this platform, possibly because you’ve griped that other people do.
Or maybe it’s something weird about my elderly desktop…
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
OP needs more offensiveness. I suggest the FPer view (or review, if it is the case) the Iannuci/Capaldi lectures.
Fuckety bye.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Anne Laurie: FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
Suffern ACE
@The prophet Nostradumbass: I went to bifocals two years ago after the reading glasses didn’t take. I never used them and just got used to reading things six inches from my nose.
Now I have bifocals and they work better. Although when I have to do “serious” reading, I still prefer to take them off. I got progressives, so no one really notices.
Mnemosyne
Just got back from a “Ladies’ Night” ride around Pasadena. If you were in that area (basically Paseo Colorado to Caltech and back again) and saw a bunch of women on bicycles with music blaring, I was the one wearing this helmet.
Tomorrow is Los Angeles’ Bike to Work Day, and I’m all prepared to pick up my free swag tomorrow. Yay!
NotMax
@Higgs Boson’s Mate
“What’s a Republican, gramps?”
(Well, I can dream, can’t I?)
The prophet Nostradumbass
Something else odd about the new theme on the site. When I post a comment, it appears in a larger typeface than other comments for a while, but eventually shrinks down to the same size as all of the other comments.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
If you opt for the bifocals be sure to get progressives – especially if you spend any appreciable time in front of a computer. With progressives you can usually find a sweet spot without having to crane your neck.
ulee
@The prophet Nostradumbass: three days ago I ran over a curb and flattened my tire. My eyeglasses are only two years old. I’m forty seven. I saw the curb as the road. Yikes!
Higgs Boson's Mate
@NotMax:
I’d just like to live long enough to see the Republicans try to paper over their romance with the Tea Party.
Suffern ACE
@The prophet Nostradumbass: yes. But don’t worry. We can’t see that. It’s embiggened so you can feel proud of it. And find you’re glareing misteaks easily until the edit time allotment runs out.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Suffern ACE: har har har, I haz a brane, get a life you moran. GO USA!
ulee
@Anne Laurie: Anne, John may not be lying, he may be suffering from wet brain. Wet brain comes from excessive use of alcohol and inhibits an individual from understanding the accuracy of his perceptions. John is a good guy, but he drinks and he drinks.
NotMax
Too quiet.
What are you kids up to in there?
eemom
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
I use reading glasses with contacts, but I can see print the best now holding it close to my face when I have neither glasses on nor contacts in. Generally that is late night or early morning.
Older than dirt — I iz it.
dance around in your bones
I’m watching Star Trek: The Secrets of The Universe and pretty well passing out. A skunk just made his presence known through a horrific scent wafting through the open window. Gah. Once my chocolate chip cookie is done, so am I. Lights out, Captain!
Calming Influence
Shut up about my asparagus. JUST. SHUT. UP.
ulee
@Calming Influence: asparagus once known as sparrow grass. I suspect you know this.
PeakVT
@Calming Influence: At least you don’t have kale or brussels sprouts.
Wait, what are we talking about again?
dance around in your bones
@PeakVT: Not okra, I hope.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@dance around in your bones:
Ham hocks and black eyed peas require okra for flavor. I just don’t eat the okra.
Gex
http://recurringdevelopments.com/
The running jokes in Arrested Development for your enjoyment.
I’m not functioning super great right now. Don’t have a ton of energy to try to turn that around just yet. Hopefully tomorrow.
It does not help to know that the war is far from over. All these nice little religous “protections” laws that will get passed because of every cake maker that throws a hissy about being forced to make wedding cakes for gays. And then we revisit the Republican legislator who said that if the only grocer in town won’t sell to gays they can just grow their own food. And if they need gas? Or open heart surgery? Or we revisit the guy, with Power of Attorney, in MO who was kicked out of his husbands hospital room and the hospital is not in jeopardy because they do not have to honor any decisions made by an attorney that violate their moral beliefs.
They will all get passed because the vast numbers of Christians in America will hear a call for protecting religious freedoms and they will be for it. And it will never, ever occur to them that these “protections” look just like weapons. Weapons that seem to give the Bible precedence over the rule of law.
It just never fucking ends. I am sick to death of debating every issue through the Christian lens in this country. Can we debate *anything* without it becoming a Biblical argument? It doesn’t seem like it.
This month was Kate’s birthday, yet another tribute show (of the three this month), Minnesota debating marriage, the month marker is coming up, and then the annual vacation we took but with someone else using her ticket.
Oh and the pre-cancerous crap.
What a shit month. Riding it out okay though.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@eemom: that is how I read things best now, at least with a book or newspaper. With the computer screen, the contacts or glasses work, I guess I’m far enough away from the screen.
I’m very used to contacts, so I figure I’ll try the reading glasses first.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Gex: I wish these people would get more publicity, but I guess that, to the media, they’re not interesting enough, or something.
BillinGlendaleCA
@The prophet Nostradumbass: You can get reading glasses for a buck at the 99 cent store.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah, I noticed they have a bunch of them at Walgreens.
Narcissus
This may be a shot in the dark but I just installed level 1 of Rosetta Stone German and it prompted me for an activation key that is nowhere in my box. Does anybody know if I’m screwed?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Narcissus: I’ve got a few suggestions:
1. Carefully check every piece of paper, cd, cd envelope in the box; they sometimes hide it.
1a. Check Google to see if there’s something there about an activation code.
2. Return it to where you bought it(online or brick-n-morter).
3. Check Google for an activation crack(this is a bit unethical and can be very dangerous).
I got paintshop pro and it was easy to find the activation code, just really hard to read the damn code. YMMV.
Death Panel Truck
I very seriously hope I am not the only one going on an Arrested Development binge blah blah blah whatever
Couldn’t care less.
Narcissus
@BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah it’s not where the instructions say it should be. I sent an e-mail to the rosetta stone people. I have a sneaking suspicion the solution will require buying an activation key.
Amir Khalid
@Narcissus:
They’ll probably assume you got it as a hand-me-down, or otherwise without paying for it, and effectively make you pay for it again.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Narcissus:
Try Magical Jelly Bean. http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/
It’s freeware and it does not require installation to use.
ruviana
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
Hey Nineteen
That’s ‘Retha Franklin
She don’t remember the Queen of Soul
It’s hard times befallen
The sole survivors
She thinks I’m crazy
But I’m just growing old
Todd
@Gex:
Find a hobby. Get some exercise. Find a therapist that actually succeeds, as opposed to one who enables whatever your misery of the moment is.
But whatever you do, quit lamenting every detail of your life on the internet. It isn’t helping you, and isn’t making you functional – it simply becomes a retreat into which you go, one where you can wallow in self-pity while neglecting coping skills. Some people who post here have also suffered loss, but their expressions are fleeting, wistful reminiscences that are sweet. Yours, however, seem to convey something selfish and bitter and rage-filled.
Runt
So glad to see I wasn’t the only one.
MomSense
I am making my kids watch it, too! Fortunately they love it!
Cassidy
@Todd: Really? In the amount of time it took you to write that it never occurred to you to think:
“Man, maybe I shouldn’t be such a smug, judgemental prick. Maybe I should go get some exercise or something instead of trying to tell people how to express themselves with some dimestore, shitshow psychoanalysis that I saw on CSI: Miami. Maybe I shouldn’t be such a douche.”
What an ass.
Todd
@Cassidy:
Hey, I’m just trying to give her the attention she has so desperately and off-topically craved on multiple threads over the period of several months. Sometimes, the self-pitying need a dose of reality to come out of the cycle of self-pity.
Besides, what do I know? In her mind, I’m just a useless, dumb “breeder”.
Cassidy
@Todd:
No, you were just trying to be a dick.You used a lot of words just to say “I’m a dick”. Just keep it short next time. We got the point.
shortstop
@Todd:
And that’s what’s got you so upset. Oh, to be subjected every day to the venom and vile tyranny of teh gheys! You’re the real victim here!
Look, Gex shares a lot of personal, emotional information here. So do quite a few straight posters. Let us know when it bugs you when someone in the latter category does it.
Gravenstone
@Todd: I was going to suggest that you might want to familiarize yourself with what Gex has had to deal with in the past few months. But given your comment about having followed her postings for a “period of several months” I’ll presume you are indeed up to speed and simply chose to be a self-aggrandizing prick for your own enjoyment.
Gex
@The prophet Nostradumbass: And once again, I am caught in a discussion of these Christians vs. THESE Christians. That I hate too. It is super duper fun for gays to get stuck in this conversation ALL.THE.TIME with allies. Let’s all make sure Christianity is adequately defended! Every goddamn discussion. We never debate gay issues. We only debate Christian doctrine.
I know there are good Christians. Why is that what I always end up discussing when I talk about my life as an American citizen?
God dammit. Really. If there’s a breaking point, it must be close.
I am just sick of the entire thing. I used to not care about religion, now I wish it would go away. There’s no amount of shoving the good version of it in my face that makes me less sick of it. I am just sick to death of discussing other people’s religion. I don’t give two fucks what they believe.
Gex
@Todd: FUCK ALL OF THIS NOISE. You do not know how I spend my time. You don’t know how I am grieving. You’ve seen a handful of post. And you take your shots every fucking time you can.
And you have seen plenty of people here who are interested in being there for me. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. Pie filter me.
And make sure you enjoy every last hateful, punishing, world worsening impulse you have.
Congratulations, I’ve never pied even the worst fucking troll. But evil people who like to push vulnerable people cause real damage. Real damage. I mean REAL. DAMAGE.
My Truth Hurts
Nope, I just finished up season 3 last night. Can’t wait for the new ones.