Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans in disarray!

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

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

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

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

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

“woke” is the new caravan.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

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

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

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

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

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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  1. 1.

    ruemara

    Scooby is under the bus. Hey, since next month, I’m in San Diego, Balloon Juice meet up ing?

  3. 3.

    jl

    Scoobie is looking for pawpaws.

    I got horrible news this Saturday at the farmers market. The brave intrepid farmers from near Escalon have ripped out their experimental pawpaw plot. As far as I can tell, the infant California pawpaw industry is dead!

    Said no demand, couldn’t sell enough to make them pay for themselves. What am I going to do for pawpaws now?

    What is wrong with people that they didn’t buy no pawpaws? I thought there were sophisticated foodies living here in this stupid SF Bay Area. Hell with these snooty SF jackasses, they can’t handle pawpaws.

    They had fantastic cherries, and cheap. But my heart was broken. No pawpaws.

  6. 6.

    Steeplejack

    @jl:

    Your comment reminded me that I have extremely vague memories from when I was very small, in the mid-’50s, of my mother and grandmother—farm women from western Tennessee—singing me a song with the phrase “way down yonder in the pawpaw patch.” I also remember “pickin’ up pawpaws, put ’em in your pocket.”

    And now, through the awesomeness that is the Intertubes, I present a version of the song with an actual pawpaw bush—tree?—whatever—in it.

    I think I have actually eaten a pawpaw at some point in my life, but I don’t remember how it tasted.

    This has been another pointless episode of Crackro-American history.

  12. 12.

    opiejeanne

    @Steeplejack: I remember a kindergarten teacher singing us the second pawpaw song you mentioned, but being a child of Southern California I had no idea what they were. My mother had seen them somewhere; she was born in the Ozarks and lived most of her childhood in Missouri but I don’t know if pawpaws live there. She said they were kind of sweet and insipid, but my memory of this is probably 60 years old.

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    @Steeplejack:
    Even if Caligula doesn’t show up, it’s not a total loss. There’s plenty more classic Malay Pop on Youtube, and others of the Juicitariat will still appreciate these beautiful songs.

  14. 14.

    lamh36

    I’m looking for a good online or downloadable program that I can use to convert you tube videos to MP4 or WM files so I can save on DVD on my computer.

    I’m looking for a free program that SAFE for my laptop and not some malware Trojan horse?

    any good ideas guys?

    I’m off yo bed now but I’m gonna check back in da morning for any answers.

    thx in advance…good night guys.

  18. 18.

    Steeplejack

    @opiejeanne:

    Both quotes are part of the same song.

    I think pawpaws could grow in a lot of places. The one in that video is in Delaware, and my relatives knew of them in Tennessee. . . . Ah, Wikipedia is helpful, as usual: natural distribution map for Asimina triloba.

    Now I have the idea of seeing whether I can find a pawpaw seedling and getting my brother to plant it in his yard (in NoVA).

  21. 21.

    Amir Khalid

    I found the discussion of paw-paws a bit confusing at first. “Paw-paw” is also an alternative name for the papaya, a fruit much more common in Malaysia.

  24. 24.

    FortGeek

    @lamh36: I use the Download Helper plugin for Firefox. It lets you grab most YouTube stuff as MP4 directly. There are some videos–typically music–that it can’t grab.

  27. 27.

    Matt McIrvin

    If you do a Google image search for “pawpaw” the first four rows are actually pictures of papayas.

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