Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

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

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

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

No Justins, No Peace

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

The US Supreme Court is on the ballot in november.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Everybody saw this coming.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Second rate reporter says what?

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

People are complicated. Love is not.

Days Since JD Vance Insulted Women Across America: Zero

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

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  2. 2.

    trollhattan

    Thank gawd and/or the bloghosts and/or his paymasters BiP isn’t around for the Dutch findings on MH117. Who will now tell us it’s all the CIA’s doing?

    Another day, another 298 murders. Bidnez as usual.

  6. 6.

    Roger Moore

    @trollhattan:

    Who will now tell us it’s all the CIA’s doing?

    Russia Today, same as always. The Russians are already claiming that the evidence shows the missile was fired from Ukrainian-held territory, the missile version was an old one only still used by the Ukrainians, etc. They’re throwing up enough of a smokescreen that anyone who wants can still use it to avoid having to see the truth.

  7. 7.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    I am calling our local Public radio station tomorrow, on the air, asking them to not cover anything Joe Lieberman says, until he dies. Their coverage of the weakest faux Democrat to appear with Trump was way too gentle and forgetful.

    CT’s WNPR is usually a cut above the mothership on things like this.

  10. 10.

    Cervantes

    @ThresherK (GPad):

    I am calling our local Public radio station tomorrow, on the air, asking them to not cover anything Joe Lieberman says, until he dies.

    If you like, you can tell them from me that they can skip the eulogies as well.

  13. 13.

    Villago Delenda Est

    CNN is such a worthless infotainment joke.

    If Ted Turner were dead, he’d be rolling over in his grave.

  14. 14.

    srv

    At least there will be something interesting on tonight:

    Donald J. Trump Verified account
    ‏@realDonaldTrump

    At the request of many, and even though I expect it to be a very boring two hours, I will be covering the Democrat Debate live on twitter!

  18. 18.

    Heliopause

    In 1968 some major candidates didn’t announce until March-April of that year. Those were the days, my friends.

  19. 19.

    Tenar Darell

    Very Bostonian: My late lunch with my father was 2 slices of Pino’s Pizza and a diet soda. And now I’m home, sitting on the porch drinking a beer. (Because, c’mon, it’s frickin balmy).

    Also, any more exhibits or gallery shows I should check out on my trip to NYC in November? /grammar

  20. 20.

    SFAW

    @NotMax:

    Too late, he showed up to fellate Putin in the morning thread. Sans the iP part of BiP.

    So you’re saying he can see Putin’s schlange from his back porch?

  23. 23.

    SFAW

    Since you all are such a humorless, joyless bunch:

    Let’s go, Mets!

    Steven Matz, 24, from Stony Brook, Long Island, on the mound against Clayton Kershaw. Kershaw may be a first-ballot guy, but I hope he continues his post-season string of “successes,” especially in games where the Dodgers face elimination.

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    ThresherK

    Hey, a home team clinches a playoff series at that park on Waveland for the first time since the ChiFeds!

  32. 32.

    ThresherK

    @SFAW: I actually don’t know who the ChiComs are.

    (ETA: I just looked it up. This is the kind of lowbrow humor I come to this site for, and you did not disappoint!)

    The Chicago Whales, from the Federal League, won the league title in what was then called Weeghman Park, back in the 19-teens. Before selling merch and hiring design companies to make nicknames were all the rage, “Feds” was a popular suffix for a sportswriter to give to any team in the league: BuffFeds, ChiFeds, BrookFeds, etc.

  33. 33.

    Baud

    @SFAW:

    I’m not invested in any team. But I gotta go with ending the 100+ year drought. Trump appreciates your vote.

  34. 34.

    Steeplejack

    I hope the Cubs go all the way. This postseason has been pretty bland for me, as far as rooting interest goes—I’m still enjoying the good games, though—and I thought the Cubs would get creamed by the Cardinals. But now that they’ve taken out the National League’s boring, non-obnoxious version of the Yankees I’m kind of liking their plucky underdog chances.

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    NotMax

    @Tenar Darell

    Almost goes without saying, but the old reliable Metropolitan and the Museum of Natural History are always there.

    The new home of the Whitney is supposed to be worth the trip, also too.

    If it’s up your alley, the Transit Museum is fun – albeit out in Brooklyn. But there is a smaller annex to it inside Grand Central Terminal.

    Couple of off the beaten track places are the Society of Illustrators and the Museum of Mathematics.

    Also in Brooklyn, and much more outré, is the Morbid Anatomy Museum.

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    benw

    @SFAW: Nope, still on the Island, right about where the Valley of Ashes used to be, and the looming eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg!

  38. 38.

    catclub

    @Steeplejack: The announcers mentioned that winning 100 games is NOT the road to world series glory. rather, it seems to be a curse the past 30 years.

  41. 41.

    Don K

    @Heliopause:

    Yeah i’ve thought about that too. IIRC RFK didn’t get into the race until after Wisconsin, and his California win, along with his ability to appeal to the white ethnic machine pols of the day, would have made him a factor in Chicago in a way McCarthy and McGovern simply couldn’t be (Yes, McC was Irish Catholic, but he sounded as WASPy as McG, and there was no way Daley, Tate, et. al., could have accepted him as the nominee, whereas I believe had RFK lived they would have accepted him.).

  43. 43.

    Steeplejack

    @catclub:

    That was the curse of my Atlanta Braves in the ’90s and early ’00s. Not that they won a hundred games a season, but Bobby Cox was the ultimate long-season manager, not so good in short series.

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    Roger Moore

    @ThresherK:

    Hey, a home team clinches a playoff series at that park on Waveland for the first time since the ChiFeds!

    The Whales- know your Federal League team names- didn’t win a playoff series there; they won the pennant, but the FL didn’t have any post-season series.

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    HinTN

    @NotMax:
    https://balloon-juice.com/2015/10/13/open-thread-the-man-who-isnt-there/#comment-5515537

    The Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History. They have “The Big Bang” narrated by Maya Angelou followed by walking down the ramp of time from then to now. Also around the equator of the sphere, which is mounted in a huge glass cube, is an exhibit on the size of things in the universe. Each item in front of you is referenced in size till the sphere. Plus it’s on the West Side and you can go to Zabar’s fit lunch.

  54. 54.

    Don K

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Right. The man just oozed middle-class Protestantism. I was referring to McCarthy as being an Irish Catholic who didn’t have the ethnic chops to appeal to the working-class Catholics who ran the machines in, e.g., Chicago, Philly, Pittsburgh.

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