Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

In my day, never was longer.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

As long as McCarthy is Speaker, the House will never be in order.

“woke” is the new caravan.

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

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

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

Bark louder, little dog.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

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

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

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Consistently wrong since 2002

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Contrary to popular belief, we’re not all mutants with profound intellectual deficits here at Balloon Juice — at least not heritable ones!

Valued commenter efgoldman’s kid is on tonight’s episode of “Jeopardy,” starting at 7:30 Eastern. Go efgoldmandottir! 

May she mow through her competitors like a honey badger in a hatchery.

Open thread too!

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  2. 2.

    ThresherK

    Starting at 7:30p EST?

    It starts at 7pm in some markets. I’m not saying nuttin.

  3. 3.

    Elizabelle

    Tuned in. A few booms outside; DC area expecting thunderstorms tonight.

    Category is “responsive Balloon Juice host” with who is Betty Cracker for the win. (For the wine. Whatevs.)

  4. 4.

    jl

    Won’t be able to watch, but will check out comments later to see how ef’s daughter did. Hope she won it all.

    Can they put together a whole Jeopardy panel without letting in a GOP pres candidate? That would be hard to watch, but would give an advantage to the other contestants.

  11. 11.

    Elizabelle

    Great American Novels. The other acting brother. MUrdered to death. Sobriquets. I. There’s the rub.

  13. 13.

    trollhattan

    “Hey, Joe.”
    “Yeah?”
    “Remember that package we got from Utah?”
    “Yeah?”
    “Did you open it yet?”
    “Yeah, why?”
    “Oh, nothin’. I gotta go.”
    SFX Door slams
    And, scene.

    The US military accidentally sent live Anthrax samples to as many as nine labs across the country. A US Defense Department laboratory in Utah had “inadvertently” shipped the samples to commercial labs.

    Spokesman Col Steve Warren said the Defence Department is working with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to get the samples, which were supposed to be dead or inactivated. The government has confirmed one shipment actually had live spores, and the eight others might, too.

    The live spores were shipped from Utah to labs in Texas, Maryland, Wisconsin, Delaware, New Jersey, Tennessee, New York, California and Virginia.

  21. 21.

    gene108

    Wheel of Fortune came on right after Jeopardy. I do not watch ever, but I must say, Pat Sajack and Vanna White are unnatural beings…they look too damn good for their age…

  24. 24.

    beltane

    Am I the only one who was slightly disturbed by the fact the pediatrician totally bombed on the anatomy category?

  29. 29.

    srv

    Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, a rabid opponent of marriage equality, told the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins on Tuesday that he believes Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should be impeached for officiating the marriages of same-sex couples.
    …
    “Now she’s commenting on a case which is before her, and under judicial ethics of federal judges, she can’t do that. Congress should do something about this.”

    Who will stop Rogue Ruth?

  32. 32.

    Elizabelle

    Kate is lovely and looks a bit like Dad. And has the lovely Mrs. ef as mom. Lucky girl, no matter what the outcome.

  33. 33.

    Mary G

    Hey! I follow anibundel’s blog and tweets. She is tweeting Kate Cox’s Jeopardy performance and it seems that she is Kate’s boss, according to a tweet from Kate. Synergy between two of my favorite blogs!

    I won’t even have to wait until 7 pm out here to find out how Kate does.

  34. 34.

    JCJ

    @beltane:

    Am I the only one who was slightly disturbed by the fact the pediatrician totally bombed on the anatomy category?

    Yeah, whenever I watch Jeopardy! and a doctor blows what should be basically simple medical questions I am always in dismay. On the other hand I wonder if sometimes they are overthinking it. I remember watching one show and there was a medical question that I blew. I was really glad I wasn’t on the show!

  38. 38.

    Woodrowfan

    I’ve never met the young woman and I am still nervous hoping she wins!!!! Go Kate!

  57. 57.

    Elizabelle

    @Karen in GA: I want him to make it a true daily double, even though he’s got an insurmountable lead, and miss.

    Come on. Ayn Rand wants you to!

  58. 58.

    Rich (In Name Only) in Reno

    Here in Reno it’s on at 7:00 p.m. My Dad is a loyal Jeopardy viewer and would switch over to watch in the middle of a live broadcast of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, so even though we’ll be watching the Warriors/Rockets game starting at 6:00 (I’m a native San Franciscan and Giants/49ers/Warrior’s fan living out my declining years in exile here,) it’s a certainty we’ll be watching her tonight, because Dad rules the remote.

  63. 63.

    the Conster

    It’s an honor just to be chosen.

    ETA: Kate’s the second person I’ve “known” on Jeopardy. My daughter’s college roommate was on. She didn’t win either.

  66. 66.

    Elizabelle

    Kate, you are a champion. And just lovely. And there is no shame in not immediately thinking of Chris Christie.

    So ef: what does Kate get to take home?

  67. 67.

    Elizabelle

    @Karen in GA: Iggy disapproves.

    Funny that final answer was two of those we castigate on this blog …. proving Kate has better things to do (ef’s granddaughter!) than hanging out here….

  68. 68.

    ThresherK

    I want to know, what happened to the third contestant who finished in the red and didn’t get to play Final Jeopardy! ?

    Of course, she gets the $1000. But at the end as the camera pulls back she’s nowhere to be seen. Do they just make her leave the building for the shame of finishing in the negative numbers? Not even the little chat ‘n meet

    PS From this show, aren’t Nobel and Burbank on the all-time list for Jeopardy! responses?

  73. 73.

    raven

    @efgoldman: It’s the only “recovery” group I ever attended:

    The Wharf Rats began during the 1980s as a group of Deadheads under the name “The Wharf Rat Group of Alcoholics Anonymous”. The Wharf Rats originally came from a small group of Narcotics Anonymous members who went to a Grateful Dead concert in Philadelphia and located each other by their Yellow balloons with the NA symbol drawn on in Magic Marker. [1] However due to operational differences they soon split off from Narcotics Anonymous, and are not affiliated with them, NA, or any other twelve-step program, though many of members of the Wharf Rats are members of AA, NA or other 12 step programs. The Wharf Rats see themselves as “a group of friends sharing a common bond, providing support, information and some traction in an otherwise slippery environment.”

  74. 74.

    Nicole

    I’m glad they get cash now. I had a friend on Jeopardy! some years back who also came in second. He got a cruise. For two. He was single at the time.

  80. 80.

    Hal

    Two more hours and I’m done in my current department at the hospital I work. Starting tomorrow I’m in a clinic in a position that pays more (two bucks, but hey, a dollar is a dollar) and is Monday to Friday.

    This weekend will be my first weekend off in almost three years, minus one or two vacations. I’m just hoping I can go home and fall asleep right away, but I’m planning on just being tired tomorrow.

    Oh well. The only thing I’m going to miss is the weekday cooking shows. Everything on after 5pm are those competition cooking shows and hate all that crap.

  82. 82.

    Pogonip

    @The Pale Scot: That’s a cute site! And cute pupdate!

    What happened to that one blonde terrier? Did the owner use too much bleach the last time she washed her dog? I don’t see a lot of Scottish terriers but up till a few minutes ago the ones I have seen were all black.

  83. 83.

    shortstop

    I haven’t read through the thread yet to see how she did, but regardless of how it shook out, that’s so cool, efgoldman!

  84. 84.

    The Pale Scot

    @Pogonip: The white ones are called wheaten, there’s usually streaks of amber when they get older.

    As my sister’s vet assistant solemnly related when she brought my guy in for a check up, “white scotties are different from black scotties”, which really explains a lot in retrospect.

  85. 85.

    Cervantes

    @Hal:

    Two more hours and I’m done in my current department at the hospital I work. Starting tomorrow I’m in a clinic in a position that pays more

    Break a leg!

    Congratulations and good luck in the new position!

  88. 88.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I am so sorry I didn’t get to watch the program — am going to see if there’s some way to download it — but I know you are proud of Kate for what sounds like an excellent appearance. I hope she does something awesome and outrageous with her $2,000!

    I am curious about one thing: many years ago, Jeopardy taped a week’s worth of “Tournament of Champions” programs in Atlanta, and I attended the taping (five shows in one sitting, with just brief breaks between shows). It’s possible I signed some kind of confidentiality agreement, but honestly I don’t remember doing so, and anyhow, how could the producers ever hope to enforce several thousand audience members from mentioning to their friends or relatives who ended up winning?

  90. 90.

    Steeplejack

    @nfh:

    Applications for Britain’s Hardest Grafter, which will be screened on BBC2, are limited to those currently earning less than £15,500 per year.

    That’s $23,800, and I shudder to think how many Americans would qualify. I certainly would have during my entire six-year stretch at Barnes & Noble.

  94. 94.

    opiejeanne

    @efgoldman: Kate did very well and it was fun watching her. We were shouting out the answers here and hoping she’d hear us, especially MACADAM! Tarmac is short for tar MacAdam so she was partly right.

  96. 96.

    Cervantes

    @Germy Shoemangler:

    Here’s the Beatles, circa 1964, singing “Stairway To Heaven” (well, actually a darned-good approximation.

    I was going to say that’s not possible, but then I watched the video.

    @Steeplejack:

    Took the words right out of my mouth.

    (In a manner of speaking.)

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