Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

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

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

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

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Let there be snark.

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

All your base are belong to Tunch.

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

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  1. 1.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    Cole, I think you might be the target audience for the “Ironside” relaunch.

    Yikes.

  2. 2.

    cbear

    Has anybody been watching Rectify on Sundance Channel?

    Absolutely awesome series.

  3. 3.

    Joshua Norton

    “Psych” has not been that good at all this year. I’m tired of the Jules/Sean romance drama. Sean as an eternal love-sick, kicked puppy dog is incredibly boring.

    If I wanted to watch a c-list romcom, I’d rent a Katherine Heigl movie.

  5. 5.

    dewzke

    Surpirsingly, this word appears only twice in the new testament, once in acts and once in the first epistle of peter: Answer:

    I Just stumbled across this question through jeopardy. Guesses?

  6. 6.

    Karen in SoCal

    Anyone here a baseball fan? Mike Trout hit for the cycle tonight – the youngest player in the AL to do so. Woohoo!!

  9. 9.

    dewzke

    I think this is a straight forward dictation from the bible…no moderation deserved.

  11. 11.

    dewzke

    @? Martin: I don’t know much but this was a Jeopardy Question that I liked from today. You got the answer? I sure as shit didn’t!

  16. 16.

    dewzke

    I’m not gonna doubt Trebek by scouring that old scroll…they have people to do that…but wow!

  18. 18.

    ? Martin

    @dewzke: It’s a bit of a trick question. The word is ‘joy’. But it’s not so simple. There are 3 greek terms used: χαρά – which basically means to rejoice. There’s εὐφροσύνη which is taken to mean joy or happiness, and then there’s ἀγαλλίασις, which is generally taken to be euphoria. The former two tend to be used in secular settings, where the latter is in relation to worship. It’s the 2nd term which is translated as ‘joy’ which appears only twice and is used primarily for general conditions of joy – such as when Cole tells us he’s happy with his pets watching the Steelers. The first term is usually taken as an expression to news – so, learning that a loved one wasn’t killed in the tornado would elicit happiness in this way. I believe this is relatively common – some small event happened (someone was healed) and people rejoiced. That kind of thing. The last one is for big divine intervention kinds of stuff – where people are overwhelmed with happiness. Parting of seas level stuff.

    We were doing some translation of the NT and it was an opportunity to compare the usage of terms. I think I got that laid out correctly based on my review of Strong’s. It’s been a while.

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    dewzke

    I’m just repeating what the Alex Trebek said….I am non scholar but that was silly wild what he said. True? I guess I’ll check unless you all know better. But I don’t remember fourth grade bible class which i dropped out of! Help me out, here.

  21. 21.

    piratedan

    just happy that there will be a reincarnation of a new Whose line is it anyway? coming this summer to the CW. Yes Stiles, Mochrie and Brady all look a bit more distinguished, but it’s hard to find a group of more consistently funny people on TV anywhere.

  24. 24.

    ? Martin

    @dewzke: It is interesting. It’s not too surprising because the early christians didn’t call themselves as such. That was a name that basically the Romans came up for them some time later – something of a pejorative, in fact. Kind of like ‘Moonie’. So within their own documents it’s not too surprising to see it infrequently mentioned.

  32. 32.

    mai naem

    Ohhh, I was flipping channels and they’re replaying the Frontline piece on the DOJ and the bankstas not getting sued. I just want to grab Lanny Breuer’s lying little face through the teevee and slap the shit out of him. And then make him do a freaking perp walk for malpractice.

  34. 34.

    Joey Maloney

    Apropos of nothing, here’s Penn Jillette on Donald Trump:

    I wasn’t even going to say anything about Trump’s hair. I live in a glass house. I’ve always had ugly, out-of-style hair. Trump’s hair is a lot better than mine—but as I sat there for hours half listening to Donald carry on, it struck me exactly what his hair looked like. It looks like cotton candy made of piss.

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    Schlemizel

    Given that what we think of as the bible today was compiled in the 17th Century by a politically motivated hierarchy mostly from 15th & 16th Century edits of scraps of documents known to have been written no earlier that a couple of hundred years after the deaths of the purported authors and their subject I wouldn’t be surprised.

    Besides, the followers of the Christ would not have called themselves “Christians” as they were Jews right up until a smart marketing guy sold his version to the Greeks.

    That said, having read the thing more than once I didn’t get that one right.

  36. 36.

    gogol's wife

    @dewzke:

    Haven’t you seen “Demetrius and the Gladiators”? Jay Robinson as the emperor Nero says “Christians” with a dripping contempt that I don’t think even Balloon Juice denizens could summon. I bet it’s on YouTube.

    ETA: I mean Caligula. Duh. The whole film is on YouTube, but I was hoping there’d be a clip just with him saying “Chris-tee-ahns.”

  38. 38.

    Elizabelle

    @cbear:

    Yeah, I loved Rectify. It’s been picked up for another season.

    Slow pace; evocative; interesting (and reserved) characters.

    Wonderful cinematography. Real sense of place and time. With enough creepiness and foreboding to stay tuned.

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