Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

This fight is for everything.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

The revolution will be supervised.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

This really is a full service blog.

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

So many bastards, so little time.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Let there be snark.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

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Samantha Bee Won an Emmy Last Night

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Trust me, this will (or should) win something.

*** Update ***

I’ve removed the damned video. Go to Comedy Central and find it your fucking selves. Autoplay was NOT on, you whiny gits. Check yourself and your browsers before you go all up into my shit, but I tried it on a pc and a mac in firefox/safari/chrome and it never autoplayed.

Sometimes the bullshit attitudes from you guys when the problem is fucking operator error pisses me off. 95% of these website problems are caused by the person you see looking in the mirror in the morning. I wondered what kind of asshole would bitch about the ACA site being slow when it was first released, when I should have known all along.

Fuck you. I’ve had a shitty two days.

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  3. 3.

    Keith G

    The Daily Show has been on fire since their post holiday return. Stewart’s interview of Richard Cordrey was the most insightful coverage of that topic that I have seen on any media.

  8. 8.

    mainmata

    Samantha Bee has always been one of the edgier comediennes…er reporters on The Daily Show but, yes, last night’s was over the top great!

  9. 9.

    Trollhattan

    Yeah, she killed it. Was trying to decide what weird early-’60s artifact she might have been drawing from. The Fantasticks?

    It’s not often the interview guest references one of the bits when they come on.

  14. 14.

    SiubhanDuinne

    John, O/T, but if you’re still around: I don’t know whether you’ve seen this (about the chemical spill in WV), but righteous rant is righteously ranty.

    http://aattp.org/a-west-virginian-shared-his-thoughts-on-the-chemical-spill-and-its-so-perfect-we-dont-want-to-change-a-thing/

    A small sample:

    To hell with every greedhead operator who flocked here throughout history because you wanted what we had, but wanted us to go underground and get it for you.  To hell with you for offering above-average wages in a place filled with workers who’d never had a decent shot at employment or education, and then treating the people you found here like just another material resource—suitable for exploiting and using up, and discarding when they’d outlived their usefulness.  To hell with you for rigging the game so that those wages were paid in currency that was worthless everywhere but at the company store, so that all you did was let the workers hold it for a while, before they went into debt they couldn’t get out of….

    To hell with every one of you who decided that making life convenient for business meant making life dangerous for us.  To hell with you for making us the eggs you had to break in order to make breakfast.

    To hell with everyone who ever asked me how I could stand to live in a place like this, so dirty and unhealthy and uneducated.  To hell with everyone who ever asked me why people don’t just leave, don’t just quit (and go to one of the other thousand jobs I suppose you imagine are widely available here), like it never occurred to us, like if only we dumb hilljacks would listen as you explained the safety hazards, we’d all suddenly recognize something that hadn’t been on our radar until now. 

    To hell with the superior attitude one so often encounters in these conversations, and usually from people who have no idea about the complexity and the long history at work in it.  To hell with the person I met during my PhD work who, within ten seconds of finding out I was from West Virginia, congratulated me on being able to read….

    Whole thing is well worth reading.

  15. 15.

    sparrow

    @SiubhanDuinne: Good find. I agree with his sentiment RE: being from “backwards” places. I never met more parochial idiots with stupid things to say about where I was from than in “liberal” East-coast cities.

  21. 21.

    Amir Khalid

    OT, sorry about that; but we’re between open threads.
    There’s been a judge’s ruling in the lawsuit brought by Rahinah Ibrahim, the Malaysian university dean who sued to get off the no-fly list. The judge says Professor Rahinah has a right to know if she is still on the list, and to have corrected any mistaken information about her. “The government’s administrative remedies fall short of such relief and do not supply sufficient due process,” the judge wrote in his ruling. The judge also ordered authorities to tell Professor Rahinah more about the denial of her visa application.

  22. 22.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    We need to clean house and start over here. I remember when the comments used to be the big draw here. You fuckers have ruined everything.

  24. 24.

    Astor Column

    What show/performance piece/artist was Samantha paying homage to? I can well believe that ‘The Five’ is chock fulla upchuck-worthy coquetry and flirting between the manly Fox alpha-males and the blondalicious Foxettes… but I’m still not willing to actually watch it.

  26. 26.

    kindness

    Can I say I really do like John’s relationship with his participants. And I am not joking. That whole love/hate thing. Talk about funny.

    @Trollhattan: I was hoping it was gonna be one of the Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks era songs but no. Still good though. Thanks.

  27. 27.

    NotMax

    It’s not viewer related.

    Embedding anything from Comedy Central is always, always iffy at best, site meltdown at worst.

  28. 28.

    aimai

    That is vintage John Cole. I expect him to announce he’s leaving blogging, post five or six times in a row, and then apologize to everyone. Its all part of the magic that is baloon juice.

  29. 29.

    am

    Hah! I work with computers and I want to print that out and put it on my wall. I will resist the urge for the sake of professionalism. Hope your next couple of days are better than the last.

  30. 30.

    El Caganer

    And is there anything more pompous than the name of that show? “The Five.” Five what? Five bonobos? Five of diamonds? Five most disfiguring venereal diseases?

  32. 32.

    BGinCHI

    95% of these website problems are caused by the person you see looking in the mirror in the morning.

    Can we leave Mrs. BG out of this please? What did she ever do to you, Cole?!

  33. 33.

    max

    I’ve removed the damned video.

    It didn’t embed intelligibly anyways.

    Go to Comedy Central and find it your fucking selves.

    Link: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-january-14-2014/passion-and-intrigue-on-the-five

    Autoplay was NOT on, you whiny gits

    I didn’t notice it, anyways. Some people may have autoplay turned on for them.

    Check yourself and your browsers before you go all up into my shit, but I tried it on a pc and a mac in firefox/safari/chrome and it never autoplayed.

    Yeah, Firefox 26/PC is having problems with all the Comedy Central videos since the turn of the year. (Flash runs, no vid.) Works in Chrome though.

    So I endorse NotMe’s comment.

    Fuck you. I’ve had a shitty two days.

    You slept in your car. In the field. With a pit bull.

    max
    [‘It could happen.’]

  34. 34.

    gene108

    Bee only talked about four of the five hosts of The Five. What about the brunette lady? Why was she totally ignored by Mrs. Bee?

    I guess only blonds matter to Mrs. Bee.

  36. 36.

    Trollhattan

    Dollars to donuts (mmm, donuts) there’s a long form version that was pared down to this eight minutes. Heck, never heard of the show, and now I’m in fear of being stuck in an airport with it on every video screen. (Shudder)

  37. 37.

    Mnemosyne

    Since everyone else is being OT and I’m in a fightin’ mood today, Edward Snowden claims the NSA can remotely access your computer using radio waves … even if the computer is powered off and not connected to the internet:

    New York Times story

    Sniffsniffsniff. What’s that smell? I’d say it’s the smell of bullshit, but I’ve been assured that everything Ed Snowden says is true, so that can’t possibly be the case.

  39. 39.

    dexwood

    Speaking of cats and dogs – I see the 2014 Balloon Juice calendar is now in the shop. Is 37 bucks the correct price? That’s not a typo? Big jump from $22 the last two years. Good cause, true, and a labor of love, but that’s a steep increase. I’ll buy one, though, I had planned to but two.

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    Cole, sorry about your crappy couple of days. Hope you guys are all okay at your house. And family.

  46. 46.

    Kay S

    John, I’ve come out of lurkdom to say ya knows we rilly loves ya, right? Sorry about your bad couple of days.

  47. 47.

    donnah

    Sorry you had a rough couple of days, John. Hope some cat and dog goodness will make things better.

  50. 50.

    jl

    Wow. That’s a good old fashioned Cole chews out the comenters.

    I was getting a little worried for awhile something was happening to Cole, he was getting depressed and listless or something.

  53. 53.

    Ash Can

    Why should I bother tracking down a video when I can read a classic John Cole rant? There’s no way the video’s going to be funnier than that.

  58. 58.

    p.a.

    @kindness: Usually hate/hate. This love thing was disturbing. I think that JpodCole got beamed back up, and the real thing is back on earth. Those alien anal probes make you cranky. Terran probes do too.

  60. 60.

    kdaug

    @BGinCHI:

    Can we leave Mrs. BG out of this please? What did she ever do to you, Cole?!

    Interesting point. I go days without looking in a mirror. When I do glance, I’m briefly startled by the rugged yet remarkably handsome gent staring back at me, but then I get on with other business.

    The woman, however….

  61. 61.

    fordpowers

    and.. the fucking assholes complaining are probably looking at it on internet explorer. for that alone – they should be shot.

  62. 62.

    Keith G

    @Corner Stone: Ha! You are expecting a truthful discourse? Silly boy.

    Fuck you. I’ve had a shitty two days.

    Job loss? Cancer? An important relationship 86-ed? A good friend pass away? You tested positive?
    Were it any of those, I am truly sorry. Less than the above, why crap on people?

  64. 64.

    Violet

    Vintage Cole! So good to see. Say, can I ask for some help with my computer? Can you tell me how to get the cup holder to stay available all the time? It keeps disappearing!

    Seriously, sorry you’ve had some bad days. Hope things improve. January is so often teh suxxors.

  66. 66.

    the Conster

    Cole, you need a friend like mine – a certified CA pot grower (West County, Sonoma) who send their friends packages that turn those frowns upside down.

  67. 67.

    MikeJ

    @Mnemosyne:

    Edward Snowden claims the NSA can remotely access your computer using radio waves

    Tempest has been around for a long time. If we were to drive through the suburbs of DC, I could point out buildings to you that look like plain old glass cube office buildings, difference being that between the mirrored outside wall and the place where any work is done there’s a four foot air gap and a concrete wall.

    Yes, somebody with the right tech could sit in a van outside your house and read your monitor just by picking up RF that leaks. No you don’t need to be connected to the internet. It does require power though.

  68. 68.

    raven

    @Violet: Yea! It was probably dumb to get so worked up but I did feel a little funny bailing out. After I decided and called I was at the Y and a nurse that I know was telling me about the same surgery that her dad had. She said he was totally unable to play golf, his passion, so he went ahead. She said it was horrible for a couple of months but he’s glad he did it. I am nowhere near that. If I surf fish for a week straight it really hurts and I do get some pain in the evening after I swim. I’m going to scale back the swimming, maybe try spin and add some pt to the shoulder. It seemed like a good idea to jump on it but that long time frame just didn’t compute. I was thinking it was going to be like when I had my knee scoped but that isn’t the deal.

    thx

  69. 69.

    dmsilev

    @Violet:

    Say, can I ask for some help with my computer? Can you tell me how to get the cup holder to stay available all the time? It keeps disappearing!

    Put a cup in it? Should work, or at least should be amusing to watch. (Don’t fill the cup with water though; might be a tad heavy…)

  76. 76.

    dmsilev

    @Shortstop:

    I have decided that I really like cam screws.

    Been assembling some furniture, or were you just suddenly swept off your feet by a lovely Philips-head driver?

  77. 77.

    dance around in your bones

    Brings to mind a comment I wrote on another epic Cole rant:

    I often imagine Cole with a chain around his ankle, dragging a laptop full of a chattering cacophony of commenters and pity him somewhat, while being ever so grateful that he is here and providing the space for us to be assholes or empathetics, sappy or drunk or indignant, witty and erudite or foolish and pedantic.

    It was on this thread from May 2013. Epic.

    eta:that was spoze to be a blockquote, not bolded. FYWP

  79. 79.

    Yatsuno

    Heh. I had to tell wifey about this one. Having said that, I’m sorry you’re going through a rough patch JC. Maybe some extra cuddles with your excellent feline will help. Or a nip from Rosie.

  82. 82.

    Shortstop

    @dmsilev: You dirty dawg! How did you find out about my pet name for my man? Have you been spying on my laptop using existent technology?

  83. 83.

    Scamp Dog

    @Mnemosyne: Based on the Times article, I’d say it’s plausible. The trick is that they have to install hardware somehow, perhaps in a USB cable, and that hardware does the communication to an NSA computer a few miles away.

    Doing it while powered down sounds like nonsense, but I didn’t see that claim mentioned in the NYT article.

  84. 84.

    Mnemosyne

    @El Caganer:

    A 2008 map, part of the Snowden trove, notes 20 programs to gain access to big fiber-optic cables — it calls them “covert, clandestine or cooperative large accesses” — not only in the United States but also in places like Hong Kong, Indonesia and the Middle East.

    It was released by him as part of the documents he gave to Greenwald. How would you say it?

    ETA: The article says five times that the document came from what Snowden released.

  85. 85.

    Corner Stone

    @Scamp Dog:

    Doing it while powered down sounds like nonsense, but I didn’t see that claim mentioned in the NYT article.

    You mean Capt Mnemo read something, scrambled it all the F up, and then just made it into whatever she wanted it to say?
    Shocked! Shocked, I am!!

  86. 86.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yatsuno: Thanks for alerting me to a classic Cole rant, Yutsy. The only thing that would make me happier is if he’d posted a pic of Sir Willie Whiskerton III sticking his tongue out at us to accompany this post.

  88. 88.

    Keith G

    @Shortstop: I was just noting the faint attempt to duck responsibility for the Christyism.

    There are bad days and then there are bad days.

    Why not just own it?

  91. 91.

    Schlemizel

    Just watched it on rerun . . . maybe I was expecting too much after that build up bur, meh. It was OK, not great but OK.

  92. 92.

    Mnemosyne

    @Betty Cracker:

    I think the NSA has a vested interest in making people — especially other countries — believe that it has capabilities that it actually doesn’t, especially countries like China that are constantly spying on us electronically. That’s why I think it’s bullshit. The expert that the Times talked to said it hasn’t been done before:

    “What’s new here is the scale and the sophistication of the intelligence agency’s ability to get into computers and networks to which no one has ever had access before,” said James Andrew Lewis, the cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “Some of these capabilities have been around for a while, but the combination of learning how to penetrate systems to insert software and learning how to do that using radio frequencies has given the U.S. a window it’s never had before.”

  95. 95.

    chopper

    @Corner Stone:

    i just melted my computer down into a pile or red-hot slag. are you guys now saying the NSA can read what’s on what’s left of my hard drive??

  96. 96.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I suspect the only person more upset about that clip than the four of “The Five” co-hosts mentioned in that performance is the one who has to pretend she barely noticed she wasn’t considered worthwhile enough to mock.

  97. 97.

    Shortstop

    Also too, it apparently took me decades to find out that you get what you pay for with drills. I am feeling pretty spunky right now. Betty, you were right! I can do this!

  98. 98.

    Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn

    Good to know that being a full-service blog still includes dealing out severe tongue keyboard lashings.

    Whip me! Beat me! Moderate my comments!

    Damn, I feel so ALIVE!

  101. 101.

    jenn

    Sorry to hear that you’ve had a sucky couple of days, John. My Rx: chocolate, tea, a good book/movie, and a couple of dogs to warm the feet. Feel free to revise as appropriate! :)

  102. 102.

    Yatsuno

    @asiangrrlMN: We weren’t going to get that lucky. But any JC rant is worth listening to, if for no other reason than he doesn’t hold back when he’s scolding us.

  104. 104.

    burnspbesq

    @Mnemosyne:

    Edward Snowden claims the NSA can remotely access your computer using radio waves … even if the computer is powered off and not connected to the internet:

    Chloe could do it on “24.” Why do you doubt The Almighty NSA?

  107. 107.

    Laertes

    Re the update: You’re awesome. You’re an inspiration to take-no-shit-from-whiners everywhere. Rant on, brother.

  111. 111.

    danielx

    I foresee a great future for Cole as an aide to Chris Christie – I understand there are several openings and he most definitely has the right attitude.

  114. 114.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Mnemosyne: The article doesn’t say anything about the computer being powered down. If somebody can physically access your computer and stick something into a USB port, they can spy on you; that’s basic computer security, and not particularly surprising.

  120. 120.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Scamp Dog: Right. The interviews I’ve heard and that NYT article are talking about having to get someone to insert a thumb drive in a computer to install whatever this is, or maybe a USB cable that gets swapped out for a regular one somewhere along the way. Radio signals are what comes out of the computer, not how they hack into it. Though maybe once things are set up they can go the other way also. The report on NPR today said it can transmit as many as eight miles away, to a briefcase-sized receiver.

  121. 121.

    Shortstop

    @danielx: What’s “at least as plausible”? That it can be done to a powered-down device? Because nobody but Mnemosyne is saying that anyone at all is making that claim, and she’s declining to back herself up.

  123. 123.

    Number One Blah

    One other front pager puts links “Below the fold” or however you guys call it. This way auto play or not we are forwarned and know what we are getting into.

  125. 125.

    Suffern ACE

    So if I were going to send out a computer breaking radio wave, I’d probably send it out during Opie and Anthony. I’m assuming most computers try to tune in when we’re not around.

  127. 127.

    Shortstop

    @Bill E Pilgrim: Part of the confusion stems from Mnemosyne reading that the combination of technologies allows a scale and sophistication that allows the NSA to penetrate particular systems no one has been able to access before, and somehow interpreting that to mean that no one has ever done this before at all.

  128. 128.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @kdaug:

    startled by the rugged yet remarkably handsome

    I’ve never seen anyone describe “wearing a toupee” quite that way. Works though.

  129. 129.

    MikeJ

    @Bill E Pilgrim:

    Radio signals are what comes out of the computer, not how they hack into it.

    “Hack” is a term that is applied very loosely to a wide variety of things. No, they might not be able to take over your computer and cause it to run code you don’t want via RF, but they certainly read your screen and watch everything you type.

  130. 130.

    Citizen_X

    Fuck you. I’ve had a shitty two days.

    Geez, it’s not like you’ve been driving a lot recently or anything.

  133. 133.

    Mnemosyne

    @Shortstop:

    That it can be done to a powered-down device? Because nobody but Mnemosyne is saying that anyone at all is making that claim, and she’s declining to back herself up.

    I retract “powered down.” That was something only Infowars was claiming. Can we drop that distraction now?

  134. 134.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @MikeJ: Right, I just meant not how they gain access. This sounds like it’s running something on your computer, and they do it by having physical access.

    The reports I’ve been hearing don’t leave any room for this being some paranoid fantasy, BTW, I mean people are saying yes, they’ve been doing that, in fact one of the things they’re complaining about is that now they can’t use the “Hey, use this USB cable why not” trick anymore.

  135. 135.

    Baud

    The sad thing about the NSA’s radio wave spying tech is that it works better than Comcast at transmitting information.

  137. 137.

    kdaug

    @Bill E Pilgrim: Shit you wish, Pilgrim. I’d love to be balding. I keep cutting this fucking hair off, and it keeps growing back.

    I ain’t really got hair anywhere else, so I reckon all the “Yea! Let’s Grow!” genes migrated to my head. Irish/Scottish/Swede mutt. We ain’t known for our swarthyness.

  138. 138.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Baud: Okay then Mr Brown, in order to provide technical support, do you mind if I take over your desktop? Oh wait, we already did. Silly me.

  139. 139.

    JPL

    Anne had the Springsteen/Fallon youtube early this morning… Mistermix had the same you tube this afternoon and I was hoping for a Cole repeat. Maybe I was thinking to much.

  140. 140.

    Corner Stone

    @Mnemosyne:

    I retract “powered down.” That was something only Infowars was claiming. Can we drop that distraction now?

    Your entire fucking comment was a garbage assed distraction. And just bullshit from start to finish.
    In other words, one of your usual comments.

  143. 143.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Baud: Good point. I was sort of doing Comcast realizing that the NSA had already given them access. I think. Who knows.

  145. 145.

    Jebediah, RBG

    @efgoldman:

    Wen I look in a mirror, I’m surprised to see my father looking back.

    Wish I could say the same. Movie-star handsome, my dad was. Towering integrity, too, and wouldn’t toot his own horn with a gun to his head. He’s been gone since 1996, goddamnit.

  147. 147.

    Anne Laurie

    @El Caganer:

    And is there anything more pompous than the name of that show? “The Five.” Five what? Five bonobos? Five of diamonds? Five most disfiguring venereal diseases?

    They’re honestly proud they can count that high.

  150. 150.

    danielx

    @Shortstop:

    No, I was referring to the whole physical access deal. However, now that you mention it, I’m investing in a new tinfoil hat – they can read your brain waves! Alex Jones says so!

    Note: you’re correct about getting what you pay for with drills, but god-DAMN are they getting expensive.

  152. 152.

    Mj_Oregon

    I appreciate what you do here, John. Come back when you can and tell us why you had a shitty couple of days. Until then, blessings on you and your little canine/feline family.

  153. 153.

    cckids

    @sparrow:

    I never met more parochial idiots with stupid things to say about where I was from than in “liberal” East-coast cities.

    Ha. Its been a long time, but in 1985 I was in NYC, touring Parsons Design School. A local guy, on finding out I was from Nebraska, asked , in all seriousness, if we had buffalo roaming the streets, and if the Native Americans were friendly. Oy,

  156. 156.

    Shortstop

    @Keith G: Well, right now the tally seems to be dozens amused vs. one offended. I agree that keeping perspective is important, as you tell Cole, but are you sure you don’t want to give that a try yourself?

  158. 158.

    Shortstop

    @Mnemosyne: Well, all right, but the rest of your original assertions aren’t faring much better in this thread. Is there a one left standing? At any rate, tardy and ungracious as it was, I will treasure the only walkback I’ve ever seen you make. I admit I didn’t think you had it in you.

  159. 159.

    Shortstop

    @chopper: Never saw it until tonight. Doesn’t seem to have much crossover with the NYT. Also, should be prosecuted for crimes against typography.

  164. 164.

    GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)

    @Corner Stone:

    Your entire fucking comment was a garbage assed distraction. And just bullshit from start to finish.
    In other words, one of your usual comments.

    I am surprised that this bothers you, of all people.

    Feel better, John.

  165. 165.

    max

    @Mnemosyne: Since everyone else is being OT and I’m in a fightin’ mood today, Edward Snowden claims the NSA can remotely access your computer using radio waves … even if the computer is powered off and not connected to the internet:

    Sigh. Fine. You have heard of ‘bugs’ right? Little devices private investigators & the CIA use to listen in on people? Those tend to communicate with the world using radio waves.

    This would be the same basic idea here. In particular, if the NSA can intercept new devices in transit prior to first use, they can insert advice before hand. As for the networking aspects, radio waves are very common in networking. You will have heard of WiFi, I imagine, yes? Also Bluetooth? (I doubt you will have heard of ham radio networking (via shortwave), but that also exists.)

    There are circumstances in which deploying a bug this way would fail, but it depends entirely on the circumstances and who it is you are trying to spy upon. It could be a particular operation might be implausible, but I haven’t heard any specifics, so nothing to say about that. Of course, what they could do is simply install crap on, say, every new computer shipping to Iran, and hope that some or most of them are reachable, and then they could simply write off the ones that don’t. (The Chinese version of this is to install crap in their router firmware, a danger brought to our attention by…the NSA and other national security types. So evidently they don’t find the concept of doing something like this as implausible. Of course, if you’re deeply invested in hyping the Yellow Peril and maybe not so much invested in the dangers of somewhat megalomaniacal Bush administration holdovers than there’s not much I could say that would change your mind. I’m assuming not big on the foreign policy stylings of Bill Kristol though.)

    The more interesting phenomenon (to me anyways) is the persistent BIOS infector. That would have been impossible (more or less) in 1990 and very very hard/non-functional in 2000, but times & technology change, and apparently they finally got that to work.

    max
    [‘And yes, if you’re near an extremely powerful radio transmitter, it can light up your metal fillings – an awesomely power radio transmitter would eventually cause them to melt. The tinfoil hat thing, on the other hand, is silly.’]

  166. 166.

    Uncle Cosmo

    Trust you, Cole? On something having to do with the performing arts? Never again. I don’t care what obscure shtick from my young-adulthood Bee might have been trying to parody, I had to shut that “performance” down after a minute and a half to keep from puking my guts out at its sheer offkey hamhandedness. It doesn’t deserve an Emmy, it deserves cremation with the ashes scattered over the Kanawha River, (Note I am referring to the “performance” & not the performer–though she sounds like she could use a remedial course at Famous Actors School…)

  167. 167.

    bewleys

    That ACA thing you said in the header, was what I was thinking.
    The Government is rolling out a program as big as Social Security in its day, except with millions of more citizens, and it should be flawless?
    What planet are you people living on?
    Jesus wept.
    The bar here is pretty high, along with the incomes, I´m sure.

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