Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

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

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

The US Supreme Court is on the ballot in november.

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

People are complicated. Love is not.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

This blog will pay for itself.

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

Even though I know this is a bad idea, I’m off to do it anyway!

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

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  2. 2.

    Elizabelle

    It’s current. Is Scott Adams a Balloon Juicer, or has heard of Mr. Cole’s mishaps and predilections?

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Origuy:

    Adams calls himself a Libertarian, claimed to have voted for Romney.

    Wouldn’t keep him from lurking, if only to pick up ideas for the strip.

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    @Origuy:
    @Tim F.:
    To my knowledge, there’s no actual standard for transliterating Hebrew words into the Roman alphabet. I’ve seen a number of different spellings for the name of that holiday.

  13. 13.

    Belafon

    I’m just imagining Adams googling “strange household accidents” and finding Balloon Juice in the mix.

  19. 19.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Origuy: That’s the weird thing about being a Libertarian. You call yourself one and then you vote for Republicans, even though there are plenty of Libertarian candidates to vote for.

  26. 26.

    gene108

    @Tree With Water:

    Traffic was bad is a regular excuse people make for being late to meetings or appointments. Sometimes it is true, sometimes it is not, but usually no one is going to question it much.

  28. 28.

    max

    @Elizabelle: Is Scott Adams a Balloon Juicer, or has heard of Mr. Cole’s mishaps and predilections?

    It’s, AHEM, a masturbation joke. On multiple occasions the medical profession has produced papers on various injuries sustained during strange forms of masturbation, including masturbation with a vacuum cleaner. Like this Italian paper.

    Nothing to do with Cole, unless ‘mopping naked’ has some strange meaning that I am not cognizant of.

    max
    [‘Don’t Google ‘masturbating with a vacuum cleaner’ you’ll regret doing. Like I’m doing now.’]

  29. 29.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Howard Beale IV: I don’t dispute that. What I find interesting is the number of libertarians that SAY they are libertarians but don’t do anything except vote for Republicans. Another high-profile example of this is Vince Vaughn. He says he’s a libertarian but he endorsed Romney. There was actually a candidate on the Libertarian ticket in 2012 that could have used the support of ostensible libertarians.

    I guess calling oneself a libertarian in more of a cultural identifier than a political choice.

  31. 31.

    Violet

    @max:

    Nothing to do with Cole, unless ‘mopping naked’ has some strange meaning that I am not cognizant of.

    Are you new here? Link.

    Oh, I’m fine.

    I decided to combine some housecleaning with personal hygiene, stripped naked to mop the bathroom and mopped my way into the tub, then, forgetting that the last time I showered I had not turned the knob back so that the water would come out the bottom when I turned it back on, started the shower. This, of course, shot cold water onto the back of my head and neck and back, causing me to shoot straight up into the air, trying to stabilize myself with the mop, slipping, and falling through the shower curtain, almost braining myself on the commode.

    I won’t do that again.

  34. 34.

    Eric U.

    @max: I totally forgot that meaning of vacuuming naked. Subtle enough that the strip can be printed in most papers, but questionable.

  37. 37.

    Origuy

    I thought that Hanukkah/Chanukkah was pretty standard. I’m kind of surprised that there isn’t a standard transliteration for Hebrew. I thought the people who pushed Modern Hebrew would have specified one. Although the transliteration of H/CH for IPA X (voiceless velar fricative) is clearly not standardized. I know it isn’t for Russian, either.

  40. 40.

    Tommy

    @Violet: Almost scared to jump into this “naked” thread :). But I can tend to not wear clothes around the house from time to time. I can’t recall vacuuming nude, but I have cleaned a bathroom floor while nude as I also backed into the shower when done, to well take a shower.

    I recall the first time I was in the lady’s house behind me (we were dating at time) and I was walking around looking out her rear room windows. Asked me what I was doing. I said making sure she couldn’t see me walking around my house nude.

  41. 41.

    Senyordave

    Scott Adams has some rather “interesting” ideas, if you define interesting as asinine, such as great posting he once had on his blog:

    The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone. You don’t argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn’t eat candy for dinner. You don’t punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don’t argue when a women tells you she’s only making 80 cents to your dollar. It’s the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.

    This was just part of a rant on the whole male/female dynamic.

  42. 42.

    KG

    @Just Some Fuckhead: I’ve actually voted for some Libertarian nominees in general elections. I’ve also voted for some Greens, Dems, and Reps (though it’s been a while since I voted for a R).

  43. 43.

    JGabriel

    @Elizabelle:

    Is Scott Adams a Balloon Juicer, or has heard of Mr. Cole’s mishaps and predilections?

    Maybe, but probably not. Adams has come out in the past few years as a Libertarian Tea Party sympathizer who endorsed Romney. I can’t imagine he’d be a regular reader here – though I suppose it’s possible that one of Adams’s fans forwarded the naked vacuuming post to him.

  44. 44.

    Senyordave

    @Amir Khalid: Just don’t pronounce the Ch in Chanukah like the Ch in chair. I saw that once down by a reporter doing a fluff piece on a local New York news broadcast about 30 years ago. The anchor looked like he wanted to rip the reporter’s head off.

  46. 46.

    Amir Khalid

    @Tree With Water:
    @gogol’s wife:
    They say it’s stupid to explain a joke, so here goes:
    Dilbert asked his co-worker to tell the Pointy-Haired Boss that he, Dilbert, was stuck in traffic. Co-worker makes up naked vacuuming story instead. and when Dilbert checks with co-worker …

  49. 49.

    JGabriel

    max:

    On multiple occasions the medical profession has produced papers on various injuries sustained during strange forms of masturbation, including masturbation with a vacuum cleaner. Like this Italian paper.

    I’m not sure which is funnier – the fact that the linked paper is on PubMed, or its title: PeniIe injuries caused by masturbation with a vacuum cleaner. Description of a case and review of the literature.

    It’s the “review of the literature” that really kicks this over the top. I mean, there’s a corpus of literature on peniIe vacuuming incidents?

    The internet really does have everything.

  50. 50.

    dmsilev

    @JGabriel: Related citations per the PubMed sidebar:

    Related citations in PubMed
    Vacuum cleaner injury to penis: a common urologic problem?
    [Urology. 1985]
    Penile fracture presenting as eggplant deformity.
    [Kathmandu Univ Med J (KUMJ). 2…]
    Vacuum cleaner injury to penis.
    [Urology. 1985]
    Review Fracture of the penis: a radiological or clinical diagnosis? A case series and literature review.
    [Can J Urol. 2009]
    Review [A case of penile strangulation by polyethylene terephthalate bottle].
    [Hinyokika Kiyo. 2010]

    1985 was apparently the apex of the vacuum-induced penile iinjury epidemic.

  51. 51.

    Tommy

    @JGabriel: One I bet there is and that is kind of “mainstream” for what other kinds of sexual scientific literature is out there. Two a vacuum cleaner, isn’t that kind of the basic concept behind a penis pump? And three, maybe my vacuum cleaner works different than most people’s, but that doesn’t sound remotely pleasurable even if there were like 10 attractive nude women using it on me! But I guess each to their own.

  55. 55.

    Yatsuno

    @Villago Delenda Est: Highly doubtful, as he has made it clear in the past he is a Muslim. If you were talking to Sister Sarah? Totally different story.

    Side note: turns out one of the people killed in the Sydney incident was an alumnus of my school.

  57. 57.

    gogol's wife

    @Amir Khalid:

    Okay, now I see that the little cartoon men were too boring looking for me to realize which was which. I thought it was the boss who said did you tell him traffic was bad

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