Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

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

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Let’s finish the job.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Everybody saw this coming.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

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

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

He really is that stupid.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

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  2. 2.

    hildebrand

    Well, for putting up a Creed album, you are a terrible person. That is some warmed over schlock-rock of the worst order.

  5. 5.

    Ash Can

    Ok, I get it then. I have no idea who Creed is. I may have known who they were years ago, but I’ve forgotten.

  7. 7.

    MomSense

    Is it just me or does it sound like the lead “singer” is trying to sing while brushing his teeth and he has a mouthful of toothpaste?

  16. 16.

    wenchacha

    Did I just see that Mitch McConnell is willing to extend unemployment in exchange for killing ACA?

    Unbelievable.

    And now Blitzer is asking the Labor Secy Perez if he is willing to cut spending to offset.

    Holy f#ck.

  17. 17.

    Chickamin Slam

    That reminds me. A local insurance company that caters to high risk drivers did a 30 second commercial to Creed’s “Arms wide open.” They altered the lyrics a bit calling it “Doors wide open”. I cannot find it though so perhaps there was an infringement filing against them for using it. Vern Fonk was the company. “They told me to honk, honk, with doors wide open.”

    Here’s one of their other ads in case anyone is wondering:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8YIkixdQYs

  18. 18.

    slippytoad

    @Another Bostplainer:

    For months, health reform’s opponents have been feasting on tales of Obamacare’s innocent victims – Americans who lost their insurance because it doesn’t comply with the ACA’s regulations, and now have to shell out more than they can afford – or go without coverage.

    Trouble is, many of those stories just aren’t true.

    I want to feign shock but I just can’t. I assume that negative Obamacare stories are horseshit. I start with that assumption. Usually I see a little shock-laced get-your-goat headline, and I just wait. A couple of days pass, the headline has vanished, the story has no legs. Then another little drooling right-wing sycophant asshole posts or just makes up out of whole cloth another horror story, with a shocking headline, and it bubbles up from the sewer of right-wing misinformation, leaves a stink, and vanishes without a trace again.

    So, lie after lie after fucking bullshit lie, and pretty soon I stop listening entirely.

  19. 19.

    Betty Cracker

    @schrodinger’s cat: I would have left a comment to your Downton review at your blog, but I can’t because FYWP. Here’s what I would have said:

    Maggie Smith could carry that damn castle on her back. Here’s a possible plot twist: The Dowager Countess is secretly a witch — Professor Minerva McGonagall of Hogwarts, in fact, who is only imitating a Muggle whilst hiding out during a faculty row at the school. Disgusted with the wretched behavior and whinging she constantly hears all around her, she resorts to transfiguration, turning Thomas into a ferret, Lady Mary into a stoat, Lady Rose into a stinkbug and His Lordship into a slug, which is promptly swallowed by Isis, the adorable Labrador retriever and most admirable cast member. Hilarity ensues!

  20. 20.

    slippytoad

    @wenchacha:

    Oh, It’s finally time to run someone against his parasitical worthless ass again, and it looks like KY dems have gotten over their Bruce Lunsford disease.

  21. 21.

    Belafon

    @slippytoad: There have been a few people that have fallen through the cracks, some of them are commenters here. But they have been far, far less than the number of people who have been helped, and what we need to do is fix the law to help them.

  25. 25.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @wenchacha:

    Drawing and quartering alive is too humane for the likes of Mitch McConnell. Or, for that matter, the junior senator from that state.

  32. 32.

    Botsplainer

    @Suffern ACE:

    Wondering if anyone would be interested in a special Balloon Juice Meet Up at Mt. Hua Shan.

    Only if we can strap a GoPro camera to Cole’s helmet.

  35. 35.

    Botsplainer

    @Paul in KY:

    I would like to climb that path. Am not afraid in least of heights. I think the coming back down might be the hardest part.

    The toeholds in that wall are the worst part. You can at least see them and plot the ascent. Coming down? I can see someon freezing up.

  44. 44.

    Amir Khalid

    @J.:
    Re the blogger griping about nude sunbathers. They’re the locals, she’s the out-of-towner. Her complaint sounds kind of petulant to me.

  51. 51.

    Botsplainer

    @Betty Cracker:

    You might get him eventually after all. Texas billionaires are already upset with Charlie Strong.

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1913429-texas-football-charlie-strong-already-seeing-political-challenges-in-austin

    Appearing on ESPN Radio-San Antonio Monday afternoon, Texas booster Red McCombs expressed his dissatisfaction with athletic director Steve Patterson’s hire.

    Red McCombs: “I don’t have any doubt Charlie is a fine coach. I think he’d probably make a fine position coach, maybe a coordinator.”

    Red McCombs: “I had been talking to Jon Gruden at length any number of times and we had planned on having our next long conversation today.”

    Red: “If we got Gruden in there for 15-years, that we’d get at least 5-titles and we would set records like we’ve never set before.”

    The first thing to acknowledge for contextual reasons is that McCombs says he was shut out of the hiring process by Patterson.

    McCombs is selling Strong’s credentials so short it’s insulting. In four years at Louisville, a program that failed to have a winning record during the Steve Kragthorpe experiment, Strong compiled a 37-15 record. Strong led the Cardinals to back-to-back bowl wins, including last season’s Sugar Bowl over Florida. The quarterback whom he recruited, Teddy Bridgewater, is likely to be one of the top picks in the upcoming NFL draft.

    Strong proved his mettle as a position coach, and later as a defensive coordinator, at Florida. He was a part of two BCS National Championship teams in 2006-07 and 2008-09.

    His resume is just fine.

    But McCombs would rather have a coach, ESPN NFL color analyst Jon Gruden, who hasn’t recruited a high school kid since his days as a wide receivers coach at Pitt—22 years ago.

    Whether McCombs is right or wrong about Strong matters little, though. He’s a high-profile and outspoken member of a group of people who have money to give. And Patterson just alienated him.

    In Dallas, they said this:

    Dallas Morning News Says Charlie Strong Isn’t a “Hip-Hop Coach”
    Read more at http://blacksportsonline.com/home/2014/01/dallas-morning-news-says-charlie-strong-isnt-a-hip-hop-coach/#D2Ozb01pfL4MPW3A.99

    My statement to Charlie: What did you expect? “Welcome, sonny”? “Make yourself at home”? “Marry my daughter”? You’ve got to remember that these are just simple Texas billionaires. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

  53. 53.

    Trollhattan

    @Comrade Jake:

    Rand Paul has a son?! We can’t possibly survive a third generation of Old Uncle Freedoms in national office. Here’s hoping he spouts dreads and becomes a professional hemp skateboarder with a night job as a drummer in a reggae band..

  54. 54.

    different-church-lady

    Wait, Robin Roberts has a white girlfriend?

    This is fantastic: any wingnut with two heads will have both explode!

  58. 58.

    lamh36

    Ugh. I heard from the recruiter yesterday. She needed me to fill out a verification of employment form and send it back to her. Well it took me like 30 min to print and scan and send it via email. So she send me another email saying it wasn’t clear enough via email and that I may need to fax it. So of course I don’t have a fax at home and I sure as heck wasn’t driving out in the old ass weather just to fax one sheet of paper. So I emailed the form to my sister and had her fill out the form and fax it to the recruiter. I emailed the recruiter and told her it was faxed and could she let me know if she received it. I haven’t heard from her sincs.

    Ugh, I wasn’t expecting a call with an offer, I know she has to get stuff together but dang she made it seem urgent to fill out the paperwork she emailed and I did ask her to please let me k ow she received the fax. I have a pet peeve about people not at least acknowledging the receipt of something especially faxes and emails since they can be lost in a shuffle.

    Anyway, just venting. Good afternoon everybody.

  63. 63.

    max

    @Amir Khalid: I notice your change of nym. Have you retired from thought leadership?

    Tsk. Once one has been become annointed with the mantle of Thought Leadership, one is always a Thought Leader, for there have always and everywhere been fuckheads in need of leadership. (And now that I mention it, they needs thoughts too, so who will give them the thoughts they need without a Thought Leader! Think of the poor fuckheads!)

    max
    [‘It’s kinda like being a Marine.’]

  71. 71.

    Tone In DC

    @max:

    …there have always and everywhere been fuckheads in need of leadership. (And now that I mention it, they needs thoughts too, so who will give them the thoughts they need without a Thought Leader! Think of the poor fuckheads!)

    LULz.

    I think B-J is (still) too much a mass of snarling jackals (with missing mustard) to have a thought leader. It’s a bit like the Redskins actually having a special teams coach.

  72. 72.

    danimal

    @Botsplainer: The Texas Longhorns shocked me. When the head coach position came open, the one thing I was sure of was that one of “those people” wouldn’t get the job. In SoCal, there was a lot of concern that Jim Mora would get plucked from UCLA, and I thought he met the right um, demographic expectation. So the hiring of Charlie Strong surprised and delighted me greatly.

    This is my long-winded way of saying that Red McComb’s code isn’t too hard to decipher. “Good position coach or possibly coordinator” my ass. Bigot.

  74. 74.

    americanitis

    “Creed’s Greatest Hits” is kind of like “Rush Limbaugh’s most thoughtful commentaries.”

  75. 75.

    Yatsuno

    @Betty Cracker: I do faxes at my work all the time. There is no seciruty protocol for e-mail that allows us to accept documents that way and in some cases I need the paperwork immediately and that ends up being the fastest way. I also have e-fax at work. I HATE it.

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