Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

This really is a full service blog.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

He really is that stupid.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Republicans do not trust women.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

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  2. 2.

    patrick II

    Watched the Blackhawks tonight — err last night, it’s after midnight. Anyhow, the Blackhawks won in overtime — again. That is six overtime periods — including a 3 OT game 1 — in four games. In last years finals they played 5 overtime periods in six games — including another 3 overtime game one, so in the last ten playoff games the Blackhawks have played 11 overtime periods.

    I am over sixty years old. They should show some mercy.

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    Anne Laurie

    Sure, now you post… in the brief interval after I’ve proofed my draft and before I can hit the publish button!

    I’d pull my thread, but this way people can carp at me instead of you.

  5. 5.

    Origuy

    Music in AL’s thread, miscellany in this one, what’s the problem?

    There’s a big problem in scientific research with “predatory journals”, basically vanity publishing for the test tube set. For a large fee, they’ll publish your paper with little or no peer review. A geologist in Ottawa threw together a paper from a mishmash of other articles, mixing biology, medicine, geology, astronomy, etc. He sent it to 18 of these journals. Only two rejected it, and one of those would have with some “minor tweaks”.

    I wrote the whole paper that way, copying and pasting from soil, then blood, then soil again, and so on. There are a couple of graphs from a paper about Mars. They had squiggly lines and looked cool, so I threw them in.

    Footnotes came largely from a paper on wine chemistry. The finished product is completely meaningless.

    The university where I claim to work doesn’t exist. Nor do the Nepean Desert or my co-author. Software that catches plagiarism identified 67 per cent of my paper as stolen (and that’s missing some). And geology and blood work don’t mix, even with my invention of seismic platelets.

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    Violet

    First of its kind fracking judgment for a family that suffered severe health problems as a result of the wells near their property. Jury award the family $2.9 million:

    Dallas (CNN) — When the Parr family started having serious health problems late in 2008, they had no idea it was associated with what they call “a multitude” of drilling operations that popped up near their 40-acre ranch in Decatur, 60 miles northwest of Dallas.

    At first, Lisa Parr dismissed her migraine headaches, nausea and dizziness as the flu, but when her symptoms persistently got worse, she knew something more serious was involved.

    “By 2009, I was having a multitude of problems,” Lisa Parr told CNN. “My central nervous system was messed up. I couldn’t hear, and my vision was messed up. My entire body would shake inside. I was vomiting white foam in the mornings.”

    In 2009, Lisa’s husband, Robert, and their 11-year-old daughter, Emma, also became ill, suffering a laundry-list of symptoms.

    ….

    After a two-week trial that ended Tuesday — Earth Day, coincidentally — a Dallas jury awarded the Parr family $2.9 million for personal injury and property damages in the family’s lawsuit against Plano-based Aruba Petroleum Inc.

    According to the lawsuit, Aruba Petroleum had 22 natural gas wells within a 2-mile radius of the Parrs’ property, with three wells in close proximity to their Texas home. The closest was 791 feet away.

    As a result of poor management and lack of emission controls, Aruba Petroleum created a “private nuisance” to the Parr family by producing harmful air pollution and exposing them to harmful emissions of volatile organic compounds, toxic air pollutants and diesel exhaust, the lawsuit said.

    Link. Interesting story. Sounds like they’ve been through hell and will continue to have health problems. Case could set precedent.

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    Bob In Portland

    Is Russian jets invading Ukrainian airspace like North Vietnamese patrol boats attacking the US Navy or like The Maine or like WMDs and aluminum tubes. Maybe they’re like the photos of those Russians who were Ukrainians who weren’t. Those old ladies in the city squares in eastern Ukraine, terrorists, right?

    How are these not lies?

    Every day the propaganda machine throws up something else but the prog/lefty side of the internet can’t seem to sort out how to handle this. The lack of coverage here at Balloon Juice seems to indicate that the folks who post here aren’t foursquare behind the saber-rattling but haven’t figured out what position to take.

    If the propaganda is wrong about Russia, maybe they were wrong about the Cold War, and that would be very confusing. That would mean that our country’s foreign policy for the last sixty years was a lie. Whoa!

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