Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

How stupid are these people?

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

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

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

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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.

  6. 6.

    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.

  8. 8.

    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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